Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 23

After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each other, set off towards their father’s home, where they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some craft.

Who acts: four brothers, brothers, that, each · What happens: agree, meet, welcome, set off, tell, happen · To what, where: time, four cross-roads, other, home, man, brothers · 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 (four brothers, brothers, that, each), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 space	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 space	det
3	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 space	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 space	conj
11	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 time	acl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 agreed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 space	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 brothers	nummod
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 cross-roads	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cross-roads	det
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cross-roads	nummod
21	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 welcomed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 welcomed	cc
24	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 welcomed	aux
25	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 met	conj
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 welcomed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
29	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 welcomed	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 set	compound:prt
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	35 home	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 home	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 father	case
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 set	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 told	punct
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 told	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 welcomed	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	iobj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 happened	det:predet
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 happened	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 happened	aux
44	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 told	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 happened	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 learned	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 learned	cc
49	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 learned	advmod
50	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	52 learned	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 learned	aux
52	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 met	conj
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 craft	det
54	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 learned	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle		the time not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past	the four brothers			the four cross-roads	after the space of four years and the time	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	welcome	gerund · perfect	the four brothers not said here	each other				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
4	set off	participle	the four brothers not said here			brothers's father's home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards home=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	past	brothers = brother		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	happen	past · perfect	that		brothers = brother			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	learn	past · perfect	each	some craft				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craft=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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