Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 3

It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to hew wood, and before he went his mother gave him a beautiful sweet cake and a bottle of wine in order that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.

Who acts: It, eldest, man, mother · What happens: happen, want, go, hew, give, not suffer · To what, where: forest, wood, beautiful sweet cake, man, order, hunger

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, eldest, man, mother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wanted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eldest	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hew	mark
13	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hew	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 went	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cake	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cake	amod
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cake	amod
27	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bottle	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bottle	det
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cake	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 wine	case
32	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bottle	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 order	case
34	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 suffer	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 suffer	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 suffer	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 suffer	advmod
39	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 gave	advcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 hunger	case
41	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 suffer	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 thirst	cc
43	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hunger	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	the eldest				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here			the forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
4	hew	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here	wood			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
5	go	past	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	past	man's mother	a beautiful sweet cake and a bottle of wine	man	order	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme
7	not suffer	might	man			hunger or thirst	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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