Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 61

Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.

Who acts: wealth · What happens: bring, bid, say, come · To what, where: small peasant, mayor · 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 (wealth), 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 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasant	amod
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux:pass
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 mayor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mayor	det
9	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bidden	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bidden	cc
12	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 brought	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bidden	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 came	case
16	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wealth	nmod:poss
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		the small peasant	the mayor	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before mayor=Destination
2	bid	participle						tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	miller's wealth				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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