Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 15
The father sighed, and answered him: ‘You shall soon learn what it is to shudder, but you will not earn your bread by that.’
Who acts: father, You, sickle · What happens: sigh, answer, learn, be, not earn · To what, where: father, shudder, bread
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 (father, You, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 learn | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 learn | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 learn | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 learn | advmod |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sighed | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 learn | obj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shudder | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shudder | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shudder | mark |
| 18 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 earn | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 earn | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 earn | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 earn | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 earn | advmod |
| 24 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 learn | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bread | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 earn | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 earn | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the father not said here | father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | learn | shall | You | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | sickle | shudder | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not earn | future | you | your bread | by that | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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