Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 73

Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have befallen him: ‘Yet,’ said he, ‘I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.’

Who acts: old fox, fox, I · What happens: come, scold, not follow, befall, say, not leave · To what, where: fox, advice, evil, you, tail · 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 (old fox, fox, I), 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 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scolded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scolded	cc
10	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scolded	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 following	mark
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 following	advmod
14	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 scolded	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 advice	nmod:poss
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 following	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 befallen	punct
18	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	23 befallen	advmod
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 evil	det
20	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 befallen	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 befallen	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 befallen	aux
23	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 befallen	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	Yet	yet	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Yet	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 leave	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 leave	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 leave	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 leave	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 leave	advmod
37	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 leave	obj
39	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 leave	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hold	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 lay	advmod
42	lay	lay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hold	amod
43	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leave	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 tail	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 tail	nmod:poss
46	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hold	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hold	cc
48	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 leave	conj
49	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 hold	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old fox			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scold	past	the old fox not said here	fox				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not follow	gerund	the old fox not said here	fox's advice				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
4	befall	would · perfect · passive		no evil			otherwise property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	fox			yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not leave	can	I	you	here		lay hold of my tail obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	hold	present	I not said here				fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold			my tail				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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