Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 15

And now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for which they had so long wished, and they were heartily glad, but they had no food for it, and could give it nothing to eat, so it soon had to be killed.

Who acts: little peasant, peasants, calf · What happens: have, wish, be, give, eat, kill · To what, where: cow, food, 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 (little peasant, peasants, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peasant	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 peasant	amod
5	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wife	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peasant	conj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cow	acl:relcl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 wished	advmod
18	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 glad	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 glad	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 glad	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 glad	cop
23	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 glad	amod
24	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 glad	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 food	det
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 give	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 give	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 give	aux
36	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 give	obj
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 give	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 nothing	acl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	45 had	advmod
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 had	advmod
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 give	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	48 killed	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 killed	aux:pass
48	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 had	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the little peasant and village's wife	the cow	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
2	have	past	peasants = peasant			for the cow	tree rules
3	wish	participle	peasants = peasant not said here			long property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	peasants = peasant			glad property	tree rules
5	have	past	peasants = peasant	no food		for calf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
6	give	could	the little peasant and village's wife not said here	calf			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient nothing=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	the little peasant and village's wife not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	past	calf			soon property	tree rules
9	kill	to-infinitive · passive	calf not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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