Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 19

Before he set out, however, he looked about his house to see if there were anything he could carry with him, but he found only an old cheese, which he pocketed, and observing a bird which was caught in the bushes before the door, he captured it, and put that in his pocket also.

Who acts: world, old cheese · What happens: set out, look, see, be, carry, find · To what, where: anything, old cheese, bird, bushes, pocket

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, old cheese), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 set	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 looked	advcl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 were	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carry	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 carry	aux
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 anything	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carry	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 cheese	advmod
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cheese	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cheese	amod
31	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pocketed	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 pocketed	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pocketed	nsubj
35	pocketed	pocket	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cheese	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 observing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 observing	cc
38	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 found	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 observing	obj
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 caught	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 caught	aux:pass
43	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 bird	acl:relcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 bushes	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bushes	det
46	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 caught	obl
47	before	before	ADP	_	49 door	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 caught	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 captured	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 captured	nsubj
52	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	parataxis
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 captured	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 put	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 put	cc
56	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 captured	conj
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 pocket	mark
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 pocket	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 pocket	nmod:poss
60	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 put	obj
61	also	also	ADV	_	56 put	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	world				however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	world				about world's house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about house=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	world not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be a condition, not said to happen	past		anything	there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
5	carry	could	world				with Tailor	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	world	a old cheese				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic
7	pocket	past	a old cheese					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	observe	gerund	world not said here	a bird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
9	catch	past · passive		a bird	the bushes	before the door		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
10	capture	past	world	bird				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
11	put	infinitive	world not said here	world's pocket				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pocket=Goal

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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