Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 7

Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.

Who acts: you, master, sorrows · What happens: know, go out, take, lay down, be · To what, where: master, little child, child, hedge, work

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, master, sorrows), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 master	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 master	punct
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 goes	compound:prt
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obl:unmarked
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 early	advmod
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 goes	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 field	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 field	det
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
22	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 goes	parataxis
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lay	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lay	cc
30	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	obj
32	down	down	ADP	_	30 lay	compound:prt
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 hedge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hedge	det
35	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 shade	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shade	det
38	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hedge	nmod
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	43 work	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 work	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 work	cop
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 work	case
43	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	Your master not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus
2	go out	present	Your master				morning	with master's wife into the field; early property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent
3	take	present	sorrows = sorrow		sorrows's little child			with thieves = thief	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
4	lay down	infinitive	sorrows = sorrow not said here	child		the hedge in the shade			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind hedge=Destination
5	is	present	sorrows = sorrow			work			tree rules

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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