Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 68

And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, ‘Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.’

Who acts: people, fox, wood, two brothers, you, us · What happens: come, meet, be, say, let, sit down · To what, where: wood, people, us · 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 (people, fox, wood, two 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 Let	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Let	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 met	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 met	advmod
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wood	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 met	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cool	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cool	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cool	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 cool	advmod
18	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pleasant	cc
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cool	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brothers	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 brothers	nummod
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pleasant	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Let	punct
28	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 Let	obj
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Let	xcomp
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sit	compound:prt
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 side	det
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 river	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 river	det
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 side	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 rest	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 rest	cc
40	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sit	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 while	det
42	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rest	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 eat	punct
44	to	to	PART	_	45 eat	mark
45	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 rest	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 drink	cc
47	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 eat	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 Let	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	people		the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	meet	past	the fox	people			first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	is	past	wood				cool property	tree rules
4	be		wood not said here					tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the two brothers					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	let	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
7	sit down	infinitive	us not said here				by the side of the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
8	rest	infinitive	us not said here			while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive	us not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	drink	infinitive	us not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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