Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 4

Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow-herd in and said: ‘Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.’

Who acts: little peasant, I, calf · What happens: drive out, call in, say, look, have, be · To what, where: cows, cow herd, little calf · 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 (little peasant, I, calf), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 driven	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 driven	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 driven	aux:pass
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 driven	aux:pass
8	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 morning	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 driven	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasant	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peasant	amod
13	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 peasant	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 herd	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 herd	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cow	punct
18	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	14 called	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
24	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Look	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 calf	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 calf	amod
30	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 have	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 small	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 small	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 small	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 small	cop
36	still	still	ADV	_	37 small	advmod
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Look	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 has	cc
39	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 small	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 carried	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 carried	aux:pass
42	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 has	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive out	past · passive		the cows				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	call in speech: assert	participle	the little peasant not said here	the cow herd				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herd=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the little peasant			morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	present	I	a little calf	there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
6	is	present	calf			still	small property	tree rules
7	have	present	calf not said here					tree rules
8	carry	to-infinitive · passive	calf not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»

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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