Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 21

"It is not necessary for us to trouble much in looking for the carpet!" so they took from the shoulders of the first peasant they came across a coarse shawl, and this they carried to their father.

Who acts: brothers, this · What happens: not be, look, take, come, carry · To what, where: shoulders, first peasant, coarse shawl, father

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, this), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 necessary	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 necessary	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 necessary	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 necessary	advmod
5	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 trouble	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 trouble	mark
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 necessary	obl
10	much	much	ADV	_	9 trouble	advmod
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 looking	mark
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 necessary	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 carpet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 carpet	det
15	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 necessary	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 necessary	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 took	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 necessary	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 shoulders	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shoulders	det
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 took	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 peasant	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 peasant	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 peasant	amod
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoulders	nmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 peasant	acl:relcl
30	across	across	ADP	_	33 shawl	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shawl	det
32	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shawl	amod
33	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 carried	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 carried	cc
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 carried	nsubj
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 carried	nsubj
38	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 father	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carried	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present					for trouble; necessary property	tree rules
2	look in a quote	gerund					for the carpet	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for carpet=Theme
3	take	past	brothers = brother			the shoulders of the first peasant		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from shoulder=Initial_Location
4	come	past	brothers = brother	the first peasant not said here		a coarse shawl		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peasant=Theme
5	carry	past	this		brothers's father			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to father=Destination

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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