Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 40
Then the peasant pinched the raven’s head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
Who acts: peasant, raven · What happens: pinch, croak, make · To what, where: head, noise
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, raven), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pinched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pinched | nsubj |
| 4 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 raven | det |
| 6 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 raven | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pinched | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 croaked | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 croaked | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 croaked | nsubj |
| 13 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinched | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 croaked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 krr | case |
| 19 | krr | krr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 krr | punct |
| 21 | krr | krr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 krr | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | the peasant | the raven's head | then | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | croak | past | raven | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | raven not said here | a noise | like krr and krr | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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