Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 63
When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
Who acts: peasants · What happens: hear, wish, enjoy, run, kill, strip off · To what, where: great profit, cows, skins, peasants, greatest advantage, town
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 (peasants), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasants | det |
| 3 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wished | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 heard | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 wished | advmod |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enjoy | mark |
| 11 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 profit | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 profit | amod |
| 14 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enjoy | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wished | advcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 cows | det:predet |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cows | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 killed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stripped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stripped | cc |
| 26 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wished | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 skins | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 skins | nmod:poss |
| 29 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stripped | obl |
| 30 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 sell | mark |
| 31 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 in | fixed |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sell | mark |
| 33 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stripped | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sell | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 town | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 town | det |
| 37 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sell | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 advantage | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 advantage | det |
| 40 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 advantage | amod |
| 41 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sell | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the peasants | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | peasants = peasant | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enjoy not said to happen | to-infinitive | peasants = peasant not said here | this great profit | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer profit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run | past | peasants = peasant not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | peasants = peasant not said here | peasants's cows | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 6 | strip off | participle | peasants = peasant not said here | peasants's skins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 7 | sell | to-infinitive | peasants = peasant not said here | peasants = peasant | the greatest advantage | the town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to advantage=Recipient |
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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