Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 1

There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.

Who acts: certain village, one, peasants · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: one poor one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain village, one, peasants), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 village	det
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 village	amod
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lived	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 village	acl:relcl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 peasants	cc
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 rich	advmod
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peasants	amod
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	nummod
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 called	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 peasant	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 peasant	amod
26	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a certain village		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	no one			wherein property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	peasants = peasant	one poor one			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme peasant=Result

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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