Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 2

He had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one, and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one.

Who acts: village · What happens: not have, buy, wish, have · To what, where: much, one

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 much	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 money	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 money	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 less	advmod
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 money	amod
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 buy	mark
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 money	acl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 buy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wish	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wish	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 wish	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wife	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 he	conj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wish	aux
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 wish	advmod
27	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wish	xcomp
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	village	much		as a cow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	buy	to-infinitive	village not said here	one			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	wish	past · do-support	village		yet		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	village not said here	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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