Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 67
Then he did not stay to think about the matter, but paid what was asked, and his brothers were given up, and went on with him towards their home.
Who acts: man · What happens: not stay, think, pay, ask, give up, go on · To what, where: brothers · 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), 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 | 5 stay | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 matter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 paid | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 paid | cc |
| 13 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux:pass |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paid | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 given | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 given | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 paid | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | past · do-support | man | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | man not said here | about the matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about matter=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | give up | past · passive | man's brothers | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 6 | go on | past | with man; towards people's home | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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