Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 16

Soon after this the sexton came to the house on a visit, and the father bewailed his trouble, and told him how his younger son was so backward in every respect that he knew nothing and learnt nothing.

Who acts: sexton, father, younger son · What happens: come, bewail, tell, be, know, learn · To what, where: house, trouble, father, respect, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sexton, father, younger son), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sexton	det
5	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 visit	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 visit	det
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bewailed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bewailed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bewailed	nsubj
17	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 trouble	nmod:poss
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bewailed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 backward	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
26	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 son	amod
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 backward	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 backward	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 backward	advmod
30	backward	backward	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 respect	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 respect	det
33	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 backward	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 knew	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	advcl
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 knew	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 learnt	cc
39	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 knew	conj
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 learnt	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the sexton			the house on a visit	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	bewail	past	the father	father's trouble				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	the sexton not said here		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	father's younger son			every respect	backward property	tree rules
5	know	past	father	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	learn	past	father not said here	nothing				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
7	trouble		father					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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