--- title: The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught him so well all that belonged to hunting, that he became very clever in the craft of the woods; and when he left his master he gave him a bow, and said, ‘Whatever you shoot at with this bow you will be sure to hit.’ Who acts: third --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/17/) [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 Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/) / 17 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 17 The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught him so well all that belonged to hunting, that he became very clever in the craft of the woods; and when he left his master he gave him a bow, and said, ‘Whatever you shoot at with this bow you will be sure to hit.’ **Who acts:** third brother, huntsman, that, man, you · **What happens:** meet, take, teach, belong, become, leave · **To what, where:** huntsman, man, master, bow, craft, woods · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third brother, huntsman, that, man), 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:pg2591:43:17 # text = The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught him so well all that belonged to hunting, that he became very clever in the craft of the woods; and when he left his master he gave him a bow, and said, ‘Whatever you shoot at with this bow you will be sure to hit.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 Whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 63 advcl _ _ 54 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ _ 56 at at ADP IN _ 55 obl _ _ 57 with with ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 59 det _ _ 59 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 60 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 61 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 63 cop _ _ 63 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 ccomp _ _ 64 to to PART TO _ 65 mark _ _ 65 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | the third brother | a huntsman | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Co-Agent | | 2 | **take** | past | a huntsman | | man | | | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | | | man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **belong** | past | that | | | | | to hunting | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | man | | | | | clever *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | past | man | man's master | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | | 7 | **give** | past | man | a bow | craft | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bow=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **shoot** | present | you | | | | | with this bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument | | 10 | **is** | future | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **hit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **craft** | | | the woods | | | | | nom craft «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/18/) - ↑ back to [The Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/)