Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 22

But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, ‘Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.’

Who acts: son, brothers, fox, you · What happens: be, not attempt, do, say, sit, travel · To what, where: life, tail · 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, brothers, fox, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 thankful	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thankful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thankful	cop
4	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thankful	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 attempt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 attempt	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 attempt	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 attempt	advmod
12	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 thankful	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attempt	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 done	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 done	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 attempt	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fox	det
23	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thankful	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Sit	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Sit	punct
27	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 tail	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Sit	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 travel	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 travel	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 travel	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 travel	aux
35	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Sit	conj
36	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 travel	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 Sit	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	son			to the fox; thankful property	tree rules
2	not attempt	past · do-support		son's life			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
3	do	past · perfect	son's brothers				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sit	infinitive			my tail		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tail=Location
6	travel	future	you			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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