Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 27

‘Now,’ said the father to the eldest son, ‘take away the eggs without letting the bird that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.’

Who acts: bird, you · What happens: say, take away, let, sit, hatch, know · To what, where: father, eggs, bird, sons, anything · 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 (bird, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	away	away	ADP	_	14 take	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eggs	det
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	obj
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 letting	mark
19	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 take	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 letting	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sitting	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 bird	acl:relcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hatching	cc
28	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 letting	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hatching	obj
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hatching	xcomp
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 know	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 what	case
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 anything	nmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 doing	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 doing	aux
36	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 what	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the father	now	to the eldest son	tree rules
2	take away	infinitive		the eggs			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	let	gerund		the bird			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	sit	present · progressive	the bird			upon sons = son	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon they=Location
5	hatch	gerund		sons = son			tree rules
6	know	infinitive		anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
7	do	present · progressive	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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