Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 76

There was once a poor peasant who sat in the evening by the hearth and poked the fire, and his wife sat and span.

Who acts: poor peasant, wife · What happens: be, sit, poke · To what, where: fire

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor peasant, wife), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peasant	amod
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 peasant	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 hearth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hearth	det
14	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poked	cc
16	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 span	cc
25	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a poor peasant		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	a poor peasant			evening	by the hearth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location
3	poke	past	a poor peasant not said here	the fire				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	sit	past	peasant's wife					vn assuming_position-50 «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: «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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