Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 11

Then the gardener’s eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.

Who acts: eldest son, son, fox · What happens: set out, think, find, go, come, see · To what, where: golden bird, little way, wood, fox, bow

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest son, son, fox), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 gardener	case
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 set	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bird	amod
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 easily	advmod
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 find	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gone	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 gone	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 set	parataxis
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 saw	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 saw	cc
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 side	det
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saw	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 wood	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wood	det
41	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 side	nmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 saw	nsubj
43	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fox	det
45	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saw	obj
46	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 fox	acl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 took	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	50 took	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 took	nsubj
50	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 set	parataxis
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bow	nmod:poss
52	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 took	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 made	cc
54	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
55	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 made	xcomp
56	to	to	PART	_	57 shoot	mark
57	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 ready	xcomp
58	at	at	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 shoot	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	participle	the gardener's eldest son			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	participle	the gardener's eldest son not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	the gardener's eldest son not said here	the golden bird			easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
4	go	past · perfect	son					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	son	a little way	a wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
6	see	past	son	a fox			by the side of the wood	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus
7	sit	gerund	a fox not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	son	son's bow				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
9	make	past	son not said here				ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	shoot	to-infinitive	son not said here				at bird	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination

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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