Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 5

The cow-herd said: ‘All right,’ and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.

Who acts: cow herd · What happens: say, take, carry, set · To what, where: herd, arms, pasture, grass · 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 (cow herd), 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	4 herd	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 herd	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cow	punct
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
8	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 right	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 arms	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 pasture	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pasture	det
23	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 carried	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obj
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 grass	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grass	det
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cow herd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the cow herd not said here	herd	village's arms	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location
3	carry	past	the cow herd not said here	herd	the pasture	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to pasture=Destination
4	set	infinitive	the cow herd not said here	herd	the grass	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme among grass=Destination

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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