Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 58
The parson ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said: ‘It was true; I saw the black rascal with my own eyes.’
Who acts: parson, miller, Devil, I · What happens: run out, say, be, see · To what, where: black rascal · 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 (parson, miller, Devil, I), 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 parson | det |
| 2 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 miller | det |
| 13 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 true | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rascal | det |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rascal | amod |
| 25 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rascal | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | the parson | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Devil | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | I | the black rascal | with my own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus |
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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