Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 3

So the four brothers took their walking-sticks in their hands, and their little bundles on their shoulders, and after bidding their father goodbye, went all out at the gate together.

Who acts: four brothers · What happens: take, bid, go · To what, where: walking sticks, hands, father goodbye, gate

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), 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 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sticks	nmod:poss
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sticks	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 walking	punct
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bundles	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bundles	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bundles	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bundles	amod
17	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 shoulders	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulders	nmod:poss
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bundles	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 bidding	mark
24	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 went	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 goodbye	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 goodbye	compound
27	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bidding	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bidding	punct
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 out	advmod
31	out	out	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 gate	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gate	det
34	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
35	together	together	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the four brothers	brothers's walking sticks	brothers's hands	brothers's little bundles on brothers's shoulders obl	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Value in hand=Location
2	bid	gerund		brothers's father goodbye			tree rules
3	go	past	the four brothers not said here		the gate	out, together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gate=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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