Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 18

The next day the second brother undertook the task; but he succeeded no better than the first; for he could only find the second hundred of the pearls; and therefore he too was turned into stone.

Who acts: second brother, man · What happens: undertake, succeed, find, turn · To what, where: task, second hundred, man, stone

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second brother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertook	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertook	nsubj
7	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 task	det
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertook	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 succeeded	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 succeeded	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 succeeded	nsubj
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 undertook	parataxis
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 better	advmod
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 succeeded	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 first	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 first	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 better	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 find	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 succeeded	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hundred	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 hundred	amod
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 find	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pearls	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pearls	det
30	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hundred	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 turned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 turned	cc
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	37 turned	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 turned	nsubj
35	too	too	ADV	_	37 turned	advmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 turned	aux:pass
37	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 undertook	parataxis
38	into	into	ADP	_	39 stone	case
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turned	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	the second brother	the task		day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
2	succeed	past	man				good property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	could	man	the second hundred of the pearls				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Topic
4	turn	past · passive		man	stone		therefore property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory

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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