Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 40

Then he went his way very sorrowful; but the old fox came and said, ‘Why did not you listen to me?

Who acts: son, old fox, you · What happens: go, come, say, not listen · To what, where: way, me · 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, old fox, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:36): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sorrowful	advmod
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fox	amod
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 listen	advmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 listen	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 listen	nsubj
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 listen	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	son	son's way		then	sorrowful property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	come	past	the old fox					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old fox not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not listen	past · do-support	you		me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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