Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 53
So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to give for the fifth prophecy, until they agreed on three hundred talers.
Who acts: peasants, much miller · What happens: eat, bargain, give, agree · To what, where: hundred talers
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 (peasants, much miller), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bargained | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bargained | cc |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bargained | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bargained | nsubj |
| 9 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 miller | amod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 miller | det |
| 13 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bargained | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 prophecy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prophecy | det |
| 19 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prophecy | amod |
| 20 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 agreed | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 agreed | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 agreed | nsubj |
| 24 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 hundred | advmod |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hundred | compound |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 talers | nummod |
| 28 | talers | taler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 agreed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | peasants = peasant | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bargain | past | peasants = peasant | after that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the much miller | for the fifth prophecy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for prophecy=Asset | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | peasants = peasant | hundred talers | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent taler=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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