Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 45

The peasant made the raven croak again, and said: ‘In the second place, he says that there is some roast meat in the tiled stove.’

Who acts: peasant, miller, roast meat · What happens: make, say, be, tile · To what, where: raven croak, second place · 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, roast meat), 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 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 croak	det
5	raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 croak	amod
6	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
13	In	in	ADP	_	16 place	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 place	amod
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 is	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	ccomp
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 meat	det
24	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meat	compound
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 stove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stove	det
28	tiled	tile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 stove	amod
29	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meat	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	the peasant	the raven croak		again	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=Product
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	miller		the second place		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	some roast meat in the tiled stove		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tile	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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