Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 28

So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.

Who acts: cunning thief, egg, father · What happens: climb up, bring away, not see, feel, do, keep · To what, where: tree, five eggs, father, ease

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 (cunning thief, egg, father), 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	_	5 climbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thief	det
3	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thief	compound
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 climbed	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 brought	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eggs	det
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 eggs	nummod
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 bird	case
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 bird	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bird	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	parataxis
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 felt	cc
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	conj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 doing	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 doing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 doing	aux
33	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 felt	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kept	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 kept	cc
36	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	conj
37	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 kept	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	37 sitting	compound:prt
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 ease	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 ease	nmod:poss
41	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sitting	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the cunning thief	the tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	bring away	past	the cunning thief not said here	the five eggs	thief's father		from the bird; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to father=Destination from bird=Initial_Location
3	not see	past	egg					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	feel	past	egg not said here					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	father					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	keep	past	egg not said here					tree rules
7	sit on	gerund	egg not said here			egg's ease		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=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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