Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 3

It happened that the eldest took it into his head one day to go into the forest to cut wood; and his mother gave him a delicious meat pie and a bottle of wine to take with him, that he might sustain himself at his work.

Who acts: It, eldest, mother, Dummerly · What happens: happen, take, go, cut, give, sustain · To what, where: youngest, head, forest, wood, delicious meat pie, Dummerly

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, eldest, mother, Dummerly), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eldest	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 day	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	advcl
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pie	det
28	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pie	amod
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pie	compound
30	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bottle	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bottle	det
33	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pie	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wine	case
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bottle	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gave	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sustain	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 sustain	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sustain	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 sustain	aux
44	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	conj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 sustain	obj
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 work	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 work	nmod:poss
48	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sustain	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the eldest	youngest = young		Dummerly's head	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
3	go	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here			the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
4	cut	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
5	give	past	Dummerly's mother	a delicious meat pie and a bottle of wine	Dummerly				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pie=Theme
6	take	to-infinitive	Dummerly's mother not said here					with Dummerly	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sustain	might	Dummerly	Dummerly		Dummerly's work			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
8	work		Dummerly						nom work «act intransitive»: 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: «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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