Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 34
The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: not require, invite, get up, eat
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), 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 | 5 require | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 require | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 require | advmod |
| 5 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 invited | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 invited | aux:pass |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 require | xcomp |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 invited | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 require | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ate | cc |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not require | past · do-support | the peasant | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive · passive | the peasant not said here | twice property | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | eat | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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