Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 12

The second brother also met a man, who, when he found out what he was setting out upon, asked him what craft he meant to follow.

Who acts: second brother, man, craft · What happens: meet, find out, set out, ask, mean, follow · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. 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, craft), 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 brother	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 met	advmod
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 found	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 found	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 found	compound:prt
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 setting	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 setting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 setting	aux
18	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 found	ccomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 setting	compound:prt
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 setting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	iobj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 meant	obj
25	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meant	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meant	nsubj
27	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 asked	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 follow	mark
29	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 meant	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	meet	past	the second brother	a man		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	find out	past	a man			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set out	past · progressive	man			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	the second brother not said here		man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	mean	past	craft			tree rules
6	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	craft not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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