--- title: Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon the bank, ‘Your brothers have set watch to kill you, if they find you in the kingdom.’ Who acts: evil, bones. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/74/) [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/) / 74 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 74 Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon the bank, ‘Your brothers have set watch to kill you, if they find you in the kingdom.’ **Who acts:** evil, bones · **What happens:** pull, say, get, set, kill, find · **To what, where:** fox, river, evil, set watch, brothers, you · **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 (evil, bones), 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:pg2591:2:74 # text = Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon the bank, ‘Your brothers have set watch to kill you, if they find you in the kingdom.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | evil | fox | | the river | then | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out river=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | evil *not said here* | | evil | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 3 | **get** | past | evil | set watch | | | | upon the bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **set** | present · perfect · passive | | Your brothers | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | evil *not said here* | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | bones *= bone* | you | | the kingdom | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/75/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/)