Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 6

The little calf always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cow-herd said: ‘It will soon run by itself, just look how it eats already!’

Who acts: little calf, cow herd, calf · What happens: remain, stand, eat, say, run, look · 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 calf, cow herd, calf), 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	3 calf	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calf	amod
3	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 remained	advmod
5	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 remained	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 standing	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 eating	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eating	aux
11	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 one	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 herd	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 herd	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cow	punct
17	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 run	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 run	aux
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 run	advmod
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 itself	case
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 run	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 look	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
29	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 run	parataxis
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 eats	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eats	nsubj
32	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 look	ccomp
33	already	already	ADV	_	32 eats	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the little calf	always property	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the little calf not said here	like one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past · progressive			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the cow herd		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	run	future	calf	by calf; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory
6	look	infinitive			tree rules
7	eat	present	calf		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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