Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 14
He who wants to be a sickle must bend himself betimes.’
Who acts: Goodness, sickle · What happens: want, be
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 (Goodness, sickle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bend | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bend | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sickle | det |
| 7 | sickle | sickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bend | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bend | aux |
| 9 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 bend | obj |
| 11 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 9 bend | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Goodness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | must · to-infinitive | a sickle | bend, betimes property | tree rules |
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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