Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 68

Frederick of course made no objection to that plan, and they set off into the wood to look for the thieves; but they could not find them: and when it grew dark, they climbed up into a tree to spend the night there.

Who acts: Frederick, nuts, objection · What happens: make, set off, look, not find, grow, climb up · To what, where: objection, wood, thieves, tree

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frederick, nuts, objection), 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	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 course	case
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frederick	nmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 objection	det
6	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 plan	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 thieves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thieves	det
22	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 find	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 find	advmod
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 grew	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 grew	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
35	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grew	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 climbed	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 climbed	nsubj
38	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 grew	conj
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 climbed	advmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 tree	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 tree	det
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 climbed	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 spend	mark
44	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 climbed	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 night	det
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 spend	obj
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 spend	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Frederick of course	no objection			to that plan	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product
2	set off	past	nuts = nut		the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
3	look	to-infinitive	nuts = nut not said here				for the thieves	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thief=Theme
4	not find	could	nuts = nut	thieves = thief				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	grow	past	objection				dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	climb up	past	nuts = nut		a tree			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
7	spend	to-infinitive	nuts = nut not said here		there	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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