Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 17

On the way he passed by a mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin.

Who acts: village · What happens: pass, sit, take, wrap · To what, where: way, raven, mayor, pity, village, skin

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 (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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 sat	expl
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 raven	det
14	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 wings	case
16	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wings	amod
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 pity	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 pity	case
22	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wrapped	cc
27	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wrapped	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 skin	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 skin	det
31	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wrapped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	village		the way	by a mill	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	sit	past	village not said here	a raven	there	with broken wings	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location raven=Theme
3	take	past	village	mayor	pity		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out pity=Initial_Location
4	wrap	past	village not said here	village	the skin		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in skin=Destination

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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