Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 28

Then thought he to himself, ‘It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage’; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.

Who acts: bird, fox · What happens: think, be, bring away, open, take, put · To what, where: fox, droll thing, fine bird, shabby cage, door, hold · 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 (bird, fox), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 thought	advmod
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thing	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 droll	advmod
13	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bring	mark
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	acl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 bring	advmod
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 bird	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 cage	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 cage	det
24	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cage	amod
25	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obl
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 cage	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 opened	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 opened	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 opened	nsubj
30	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opened	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 took	cc
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 opened	conj
35	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hold	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 took	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 put	obj
41	into	into	ADP	_	44 cage	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 cage	det
43	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cage	amod
44	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		fox	fox		then		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	is a	future	bird	a droll thing					tree rules
3	bring away	to-infinitive			such fine bird	this shabby cage		away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination
4	open	past	fox	the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	take	past	fox not said here	hold of bird					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	put	infinitive	fox not said here	bird		the golden cage			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	hold			bird					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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