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title: Then the gardener’s eldest son set out and thought to find the golde… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the gardener’s eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it. Who acts: eldest son, son, fox. A sentence of «Grimms'
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 11

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Then the gardener’s eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.

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**Who acts:** eldest son, son, fox · **What happens:** set out, think, find, go, come, see · **To what, where:** golden bird, little way, wood, fox, bow

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest son, son, fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:2:11
# text = Then the gardener’s eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
55	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle | the gardener's eldest son |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the gardener's eldest son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the gardener's eldest son *not said here* | the golden bird |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | son | a little way |  | a wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **see** | past | son | a fox |  |  |  | by the side of the wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sit** | gerund | a fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | past | son | son's bow |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 9 | **make** | past | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 10 | **shoot** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination |

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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.

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**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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