Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 12

Then they went back to the meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone.

Who acts: peasants, someone, calf · What happens: go back, steal, be · To what, where: calf

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 (peasants, someone, calf), 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	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 meadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stolen	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stolen	cc
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 stolen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stolen	aux
13	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 calf	det
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stolen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gone	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	peasants = peasant		then	to the meadow result; together property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to meadow=Result
2	steal	past · perfect	someone	the calf			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location calf=Theme
3	is	past	calf			gone property	tree rules

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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