Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 32

Then the tailor took his needle, and sewed the eggs as he was told; and when he had done, the thief was sent to take them back to the nest, and put them under the bird without its knowing it.

Who acts: tailor, thief, egg · What happens: take, sew, tell, do, send, take back · To what, where: needle, eggs, tailor, thief, nest, bird · 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 (tailor, thief, egg), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 needle	nmod:poss
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sewed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sewed	cc
9	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eggs	det
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sewed	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sewed	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 done	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 done	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 took	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thief	det
24	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	aux:pass
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sent	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 take	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 nest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 nest	det
33	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 put	cc
36	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 put	obj
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 bird	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
41	without	without	SCONJ	_	43 knowing	mark
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 knowing	nsubj
43	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 put	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knowing	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the tailor	tailor's needle		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
2	sew	past	the tailor not said here	the eggs				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Product
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		tailor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	do	past · perfect	tailor					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	send	past · passive		the thief				tree rules
6	take back	to-infinitive	the thief not said here	needle	the nest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to nest=Destination
7	put	infinitive	the thief not said here	needle			under the bird	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme under bird=Destination
8	know	gerund	egg	bird				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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