Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 65

As he came nearer, he saw that the two men were his brothers, who had turned robbers; so he said, ‘Cannot they in any way be saved?’

Who acts: man, two men, brothers · What happens: come, see, be, turn, say, save · To what, where: brothers, robbers · 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 (man, two men, brothers), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
4	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 brothers	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brothers	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brothers	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 turned	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 brothers	acl:relcl
19	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saved	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 saved	punct
26	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 saved	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 they	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saved	nsubj:pass
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 they	nmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 saved	aux:pass
33	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	ccomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 saved	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	man		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the two men	man's brothers		tree rules
4	turn	past · perfect	man's brothers	robbers		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robber=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	save	can · passive		robbers = robber		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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