Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 109

So he had an axe brought; and they cut down the tree, but found no one upon it.

Who acts: father, sisters · What happens: have, bring, cut down, find · To what, where: axe, tree, one

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sisters), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 axe	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	father	a axe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
2	bring	participle		a axe not said here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	cut down	past	sisters = sister	the tree		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
4	find	past	sisters = sister not said here	no one	upon tree	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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