Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 21

In the meantime came the parson; the miller’s wife received him well, and said: ‘My husband is out, so we will have a feast.’

Who acts: wife, husband, we · What happens: come, receive, say, be, have · To what, where: parson, meantime, feast · 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 (wife, husband, we), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parson	det
6	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 received	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 miller	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 received	nsubj
12	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 received	obj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 received	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 out	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 out	punct
20	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 out	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 out	cop
23	out	out	ADV	_	17 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 feast	det
30	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		the parson	the meantime		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parson=Theme
2	receive	past	the miller's wife	parson		well property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	My husband			out property	tree rules
5	have	future	we	a feast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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