--- title: A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensib… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said: ‘There’s a fellow who will give his father some trouble!’ Who acts: certain father, elder, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/) / 1 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 1 A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said: ‘There’s a fellow who will give his father some trouble!’ **Who acts:** certain father, elder, people, fellow · **What happens:** have, be, do, learn, understand, see · **To what, where:** two sons, everything, anything, father, trouble · **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 (certain father, elder, people, fellow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:57:1 # text = A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said: ‘There’s a fellow who will give his father some trouble!’ 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 neither neither ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 32 cc _ _ 32 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 33 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 43 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 45 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 49 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 acl:relcl _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 iobj _ _ 53 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 54 det _ _ 54 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a certain father | two sons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the elder | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the elder *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | could | a certain father *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **learn** | could | | | | | | neither *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **understand** | infinitive | | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 8 | **see** | past | people | father | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **give** | future | a fellow | some trouble | father's father | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient trouble=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. - ← previous: [The Salad, 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/70/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/2/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)