Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 4

The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.

Who acts: gardener, twelve o’clock, another · What happens: set, watch, fall, be · To what, where: eldest 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 (gardener, twelve o’clock, another), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 watch	mark
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 twelve	advmod
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 o’clock	nummod
13	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fell	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 missing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 missing	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 morning	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morning	det
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 missing	obl
22	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	27 missing	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 apples	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apples	det
25	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 another	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 missing	cop
27	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fell	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	the gardener	gardener's eldest son			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient son=Result
2	watch	to-infinitive	the gardener not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	twelve o’clock			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	another		morning	missing property	tree rules

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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