Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 60
At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautiful house, and the peasants said: ‘The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.’
Who acts: miller, peasants, small peasant, golden snow, people · What happens: launch out, build, say, have, be, fall · To what, where: small peasant, home, beautiful house, gold, shovels · 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 (miller, peasants, small peasant, golden snow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 home | case |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 launched | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peasant | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peasant | amod |
| 5 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 launched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 7 launched | advmod |
| 7 | launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 launched | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 built | nsubj |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 launched | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 peasants | det |
| 18 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 built | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 ‘ | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peasant | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 peasant | amod |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ‘ | parataxis |
| 26 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 30 place | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 place | cop |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 falls | advmod |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 snow | amod |
| 33 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 falls | nsubj |
| 34 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 place | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 carry | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 carry | cc |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 carry | nsubj |
| 38 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 has | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gold | det |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carry | obj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 38 carry | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 shovels | case |
| 43 | shovels | shovel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 carry | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 launched | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch out | participle · passive | the small peasant | home | gradually property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at home=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | past | miller | a beautiful house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the peasants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the small peasant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | participle | to the place; certainly property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fall | present | golden snow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | carry | present | people | the gold | shovels | home property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Value in shovel=Location |
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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