Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 9
Look how your brother works, but you do not even earn your salt.’
Who acts: you, brother · What happens: look, work, not earn · To what, where: salt
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 (you, brother), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 works | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 earn | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 earn | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 earn | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 earn | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 earn | advmod |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 earn | advmod |
| 12 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 salt | nmod:poss |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earn | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | present | your brother | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not earn | present · do-support | you | your salt | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=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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