Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 6

So each brother went his way; and as the eldest was hastening on a man met him, and asked him where he was going, and what he wanted.

Who acts: brother, eldest, man · What happens: go, hasten, meet, ask, want · To what, where: way, eldest

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 (brother, eldest, man), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	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 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hastening	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hastening	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 hastening	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eldest	det
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 hastening	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hastening	aux
13	hastening	hasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hastening	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 going	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 asked	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 what	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 what	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	each brother	man's way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	hasten	past · progressive	the eldest			tree rules
3	meet	past	a man	eldest = eld		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	each brother not said here		eldest = eld	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	go	past · progressive	man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	want	past	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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