Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 12
The elder brother smiled when he heard that, and thought to himself: ‘Goodness, what a blockhead that brother of mine is!
Who acts: elder brother, brother, Goodness · What happens: smile, hear, think, blockhead, be · To what, where: that, brother
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother, Goodness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 smiled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Goodness | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Goodness | punct |
| 16 | Goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blockhead | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 blockhead | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blockhead | det |
| 20 | blockhead | blockhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Goodness | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brother | det |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blockhead | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mine | case |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | parataxis |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the elder brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | brother | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | participle | the elder brother not said here | brother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | blockhead | that brother of mine | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | present | Goodness | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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