Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 21
However, at last it was agreed he should go, for he would not rest at home; and as he came to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel.
Who acts: son · What happens: agree, go, not rest, come, meet, hear · To what, where: luck, home, wood, fox, same good counsel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 last | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 agreed | aux:pass |
| 7 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 last | advcl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rest | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 rest | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rest | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rest | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rest | advmod |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rest | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 met | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 met | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 met | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fox | det |
| 31 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 heard | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 heard | cc |
| 34 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 met | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 counsel | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 counsel | amod |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 counsel | amod |
| 38 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heard | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | luck | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | should | son | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not rest | would | son | home | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | son | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | son | the fox | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | son not said here | the same good counsel | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
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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