Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 54
Then the peasant once more pinched the raven’s head till he croaked loudly.
Who acts: peasant, miller · What happens: pinch, croak · To what, where: head
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 (peasant, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 pinched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pinched | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 pinched | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 pinched | advmod |
| 6 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 raven | det |
| 8 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 raven | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pinched | obj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 croaked | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 croaked | nsubj |
| 13 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pinched | advcl |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 croaked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | the peasant | the raven's head | then | once property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 2 | croak | past | miller | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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