Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 2

Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: ‘Good jams, cheap!

Who acts: peasant woman, street · What happens: come, cry · To what, where: street

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant woman, street), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 street	acl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 jams	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 jams	punct
12	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jams	amod
13	jams	jam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cheap	punct
15	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jams	amod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a peasant woman			the street	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down street=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the street not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.

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