Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 20

Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.

Who acts: youngest son, father, son, ill luck · What happens: pass on, wish, set out, seek, not listen, be · To what, where: wide world, bird, 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 (youngest son, father, son, ill luck), 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	again	again	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wished	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wished	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wished	nsubj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 wished	advmod
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 set	mark
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 world	amod
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 seek	mark
20	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 bird	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bird	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bird	amod
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seek	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 listen	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 listen	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 listen	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 listen	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 listen	advmod
31	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 passed	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 listen	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 while	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 while	det
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 while	amod
37	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 listen	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fond	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 fond	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fond	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fond	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 fond	advmod
43	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 listen	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 son	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 son	nmod:poss
46	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fond	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 afraid	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 afraid	cc
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 afraid	cop
50	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fond	conj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 happen	mark
52	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 luck	det
53	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 luck	amod
54	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 happen	nsubj
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 happen	aux
56	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 afraid	ccomp
57	to	to	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 happen	obl
59	also	also	ADV	_	56 happen	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 prevent	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 prevent	cc
62	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 listen	conj
63	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 coming	nsubj
64	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 prevent	xcomp
65	back	back	ADV	_	64 coming	advmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle				again; time		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wish	past	the youngest son					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	set out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest son not said here		the wide world			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
4	seek	to-infinitive	the youngest son not said here				for the golden bird	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme
5	not listen	would	son's father	bird		while		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
6	is	past	son				of son's son; fond property	tree rules
7	is	past	son not said here				afraid property	tree rules
8	happen	might	some ill luck	son				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	prevent	infinitive	son's father not said here					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
10	come back	gerund	son					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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