Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 63
There he looked for work, but could find none, and he learnt nothing by which he could help himself.
Who acts: son · What happens: look, find, learn, help · To what, where: none, nothing, son
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learnt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 learnt | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 learnt | nsubj |
| 14 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 learnt | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 help | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | son | there | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | could | son not said here | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn | past | son | nothing | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help | could | son | son | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
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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