Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 18

Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.

Who acts: same thing · What happens: pass on, not come back, hear, set out, happen · To what, where: tidings, second son, son

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 (same thing), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passed	compound:prt
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 son	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 passed	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 tidings	det
17	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heard	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux:pass
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 passed	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 son	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 son	det
24	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 son	amod
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	conj
26	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 son	acl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 happened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 happened	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 happened	nsubj
33	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 happened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle				time		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not come back	past · do-support					as the eldest son	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past · passive		no tidings			of son	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	set out	participle		the second son not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	happen	past	the same thing		son			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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