Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 16

They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.

Who acts: peasants, peasant, village · What happens: salt, go, want, sell, buy, proceed · To what, where: flesh, town, skin, new 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, peasant, village), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 salted	nsubj
2	salted	salt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flesh	det
4	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 salted	parataxis
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sell	mark
16	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skin	det
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sell	obj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sell	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 buy	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 buy	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 buy	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 buy	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 buy	aux
25	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sell	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 calf	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 calf	amod
28	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buy	obj
29	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 proceeds	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 proceeds	det
31	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 buy	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 salted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	salt	past	peasants = peasant	the flesh		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flesh=Destination
2	go	past	the peasant		the town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
3	want	past	the peasant not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here	the skin	there	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
5	buy	might	village	a new calf		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme
6	proceed	present	village not said here			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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