Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 60

But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, ‘I will at any rate give you good counsel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.’

Who acts: young man, fox · What happens: refuse, not do, say, give, beware, ransom · To what, where: bird, good counsel, you, one, gallows · 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 (young man, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 refused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refused	nsubj
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 refused	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refused	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 will	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 rate	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 rate	det
20	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 will	obl
21	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 counsel	amod
24	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 beware	punct
26	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 things	nummod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 beware	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ransom	punct
31	ransom	ransom	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 refused	parataxis
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ransom	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 gallows	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gallows	det
36	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sit	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sit	cc
39	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 ransom	conj
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 sit	compound:prt
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 side	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 side	det
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sit	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 river	case
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 river	det
46	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 side	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the young man					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not do	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	bird				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the fox					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	future		good counsel	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme
5	beware	infinitive					of two things	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	ransom	infinitive		no one		the gallows		tree rules
7	sit down	infinitive					by the side of no river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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