Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 25

So he looked up, and said to the second son, ‘At the top of this tree there is a chaffinch’s nest; tell me how many eggs there are in it.’

Who acts: father, nest, many eggs · What happens: look up, say, be, tell · To what, where: second son, top, tree, me · 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 (father, nest, many eggs), 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 looked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 looked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 top	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 top	punct
14	At	at	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tree	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chaffinch	det
23	chaffinch	chaffinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nest	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 chaffinch	case
25	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 eggs	amod
31	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 are	nsubj
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 are	expl
33	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 are	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	look up	past	father				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	father not said here		the second son	the top of this tree	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient
3	be	present	a chaffinch's nest	this tree not said here		there	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	father not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	does	present	many eggs			tree; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

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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