Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 49

At last the peasant pinched the raven once more till he croaked, and said: ‘Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed.’

Who acts: last peasant, raven, cakes · What happens: pinch, croak, say, be · To what, where: raven · 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 (last peasant, raven, cakes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasant	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinched	nsubj
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 raven	det
7	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pinched	obj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pinched	advmod
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 croaked	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 croaked	nsubj
12	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pinched	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pinched	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
18	Fourthly	fourthly	ADV	_	21 says	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Fourthly	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 are	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 says	ccomp
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 cakes	det
26	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 are	nsubj
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 bed	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bed	det
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cakes	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	the last peasant	the raven			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme
2	croak	past	raven				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	raven			fourthly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	does	present	some cakes under the bed		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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