Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 52

The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said: ‘First, we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.’

Who acts: little peasant, we, fifth · What happens: like, know, say, eat, be · To what, where: miller, fifth, four things · 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 (little peasant, we, fifth), 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 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	aux
5	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fifth	det
10	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 peasant	amod
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 First	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 First	punct
19	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 eat	advmod
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 things	det
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 things	nummod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eat	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 something	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	33 something	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fifth	det
31	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 something	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 something	cop
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 eat	parataxis
34	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 something	amod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 something	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect · passive		the miller		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	know	to-infinitive		the fifth		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fifth=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the little peasant		first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	eat	future	we	the four things	quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	is	present	the fifth		for something	tree rules

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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