--- title: And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, ‘Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.’ Who acts: people, fox, wood, two brothers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Golden Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/) / 68 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 68 And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, ‘Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.’ **Who acts:** people, fox, wood, two brothers, you, us · **What happens:** come, meet, be, say, let, sit down · **To what, where:** wood, people, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, fox, wood, two brothers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:2:68 # text = And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, ‘Let us sit down by the side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 12 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | people | | | the wood | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **meet** | past | the fox | people | | | | first *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | wood | | | | | cool *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | wood *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the two brothers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sit down** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | by the side of the river | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | | 8 | **rest** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | while | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **drink** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/69/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/)