Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 29

The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw, and asked, ‘What is that fellow doing there?’

Who acts: miller, peasant, that · What happens: see, lie, ask, do · To what, where: peasant, straw · 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 (miller, peasant, that), 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 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peasant	det
5	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 peasant	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 straw	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 straw	det
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 doing	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 doing	aux
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 doing	nsubj
18	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 doing	amod
19	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asked	ccomp
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 doing	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	the miller	the peasant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peasant=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund	the peasant not said here		the straw	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on straw=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	the miller not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	present · progressive	that		there	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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