Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 24

When they came to the village, the son followed the fox’s counsel, and without looking about him went to the shabby inn and rested there all night at his ease.

Who acts: tidings, son · What happens: come, follow, look, go, rest · To what, where: village, counsel, shabby inn, ease

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 (tidings, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 followed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	nsubj
10	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counsel	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 fox	case
14	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 looking	mark
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	obl
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 inn	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 inn	det
24	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 inn	amod
25	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rested	cc
27	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 rested	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rested	obl:unmarked
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 ease	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ease	nmod:poss
33	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rested	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	tidings = tiding		the village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
2	follow	past	the son	the fox's counsel				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	look	gerund					about fox	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
4	go	past			the shabby inn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
5	rest	past			fox's ease; there	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location

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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