Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 22

The peasant listened, and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to make shift with a slice of bread and cheese.

Who acts: peasant, husband · What happens: listen, hear, talk, vex, force, make · To what, where: peasants, husband, shift, bread

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 (peasant, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listened	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 feasting	case
12	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 vexed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 vexed	aux:pass
15	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 feasting	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 forced	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forced	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forced	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 forced	aux:pass
20	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 talk	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 forced	xcomp
23	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 slice	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 slice	det
26	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 bread	case
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slice	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cheese	cc
30	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slice	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the peasant			tree rules
2	hear	past	husband	peasants = peasant		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	talk	infinitive	the peasant not said here		about feasting	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about feasting=Topic
4	vex	past · passive		husband		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	force	past · perfect · passive		husband		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	make	to-infinitive	husband not said here	shift	with a slice of bread and cheese	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shift=Product
7	slice			bread		nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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