Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 42
The peasant answered: ‘In the first place, he says that there is some wine hidden under the pillow.’
Who acts: peasant, miller, wine · What happens: answer, say, be, hide · To what, where: first place, wine, pillow · 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 (peasant, miller, wine), 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 | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 6 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 is | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 wine | det |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wine | acl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 pillow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pillow | det |
| 21 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hidden | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the peasant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | miller | the first place | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | present | some wine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | some wine not said here | the pillow | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under pillow=Location |
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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