Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 14
The peasant, however, said: ‘Don’t tell me that,’ and led the cow-herd before the mayor, who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away.
Who acts: peasant, mayor, calf · What happens: say, not tell, lead, condemn, give, run away · To what, where: that, me, cow herd, mayor, village, cow · 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 (peasant, mayor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 peasant | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 herd | det |
| 19 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 herd | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cow | punct |
| 21 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 mayor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mayor | det |
| 24 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 condemned | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 condemned | nsubj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 carelessness | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 carelessness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 condemned | obl |
| 30 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mayor | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 condemned | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 give | mark |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 condemned | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 peasant | det |
| 35 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cow | det |
| 37 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 calf | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 calf | det |
| 40 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cow | nmod |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 run | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 run | aux |
| 43 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 calf | acl:relcl |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 run | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | infinitive · do-support | that | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the peasant not said here | the cow herd | the mayor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme before mayor=Destination | |||
| 4 | condemn | past | the mayor | village | for village's carelessness | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | the mayor not said here | a cow | the peasant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient cow=Theme | |||
| 6 | run away | past · perfect | the calf | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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