Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 50

‘That would be a fine thing!’ cried the miller, and looked there, and found the cakes.

Who acts: That, fine thing · What happens: be, cry, look, find · To what, where: fine thing, miller, cakes

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 (That, fine thing), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thing	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 miller	det
12	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 looked	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cakes	det
21	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 found	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	would	That	a fine thing		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a fine thing	the miller		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic
3	look	past	a fine thing not said here		there	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	find	past	a fine thing not said here	the cakes		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic

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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