Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 2

His master therefore was tired of keeping him and began to think of putting an end to him; but the ass, who saw that some mischief was in the wind, took himself slyly off, and began his journey towards the great city, ‘For there,’ thought he, ‘I may turn musician.’

Who acts: master, ass, mischief, farmer · What happens: be, keep, begin, think, put, see · To what, where: farmer, end, wind, ass, journey, musician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, ass, mischief, farmer), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 keeping	mark
7	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keeping	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 think	mark
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 putting	mark
14	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 think	advcl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 putting	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 putting	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 took	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ass	det
22	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ass	acl:relcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 wind	mark
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 mischief	det
28	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wind	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wind	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ass	punct
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 thought	parataxis
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 took	obj
36	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	37 off	advmod
37	off	off	ADV	_	34 took	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 began	cc
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 journey	nmod:poss
42	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 began	obj
43	towards	towards	ADP	_	46 city	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 city	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 city	amod
46	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 began	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 there	punct
48	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 there	punct
49	For	for	ADP	_	50 there	case
50	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 began	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 there	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
53	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	parataxis
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 turn	nsubj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 turn	punct
56	‘	'	PUNCT	_	59 turn	punct
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 turn	nsubj
58	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 turn	aux
59	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 thought	ccomp
60	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 turn	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	farmer's master				therefore, tired property	tree rules
2	keep	gerund	farmer's master not said here	farmer				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	begin	past	farmer's master not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	farmer's master not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	put	gerund	farmer's master not said here	a end	farmer			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
6	see	past	the ass					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	some mischief			the wind		tree rules
8	take	past	the ass	ass			off property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
9	begin	past	the ass not said here	farmer's journey			towards the great city	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
10	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	turn	may	ass	musician				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent musician=Theme
12	journey		farmer					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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