Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 33
‘I am contented with anything,’ replied the husband, ‘so far as I am concerned, bread and cheese will do,’ and looked at the peasant and said: ‘Come and eat some more with me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: content, reply, be, ', look, say · To what, where: I, husband, more · 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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 contented | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 contented | aux:pass |
| 4 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 contented | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contented | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 husband | det |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 husband | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ’ | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 concerned | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 concerned | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 concerned | cop |
| 19 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 far | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cheese | cc |
| 23 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | conj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 ’ | aux |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’ | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 peasant | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 peasant | det |
| 32 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looked | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 37 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 eat | cc |
| 39 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 Come | conj |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 more | det |
| 41 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 eat | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 eat | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | present · passive | I | with anything | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ' | infinitive · do-support | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look | past | at the peasant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at peasant=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | eat | infinitive | some more | with me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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