Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 65

When she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more than two talers for a skin, and when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said: ‘What can I do with all these skins?’

Who acts: servant, mayor, others, I · What happens: come, not give, say, do · To what, where: merchant, two talers, servant, talers · 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 (servant, mayor, others, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 merchant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 merchant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 two	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 more	fixed
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 talers	nummod
19	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 give	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 skin	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 skin	det
22	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talers	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 give	cc
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 give	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 give	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 give	advmod
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	33 give	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 do	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 do	punct
42	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 do	obj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 skins	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 skins	det:predet
48	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	49 skins	det
49	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 do	obl
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	45 do	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	servant			the merchant in the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location
2	not give	past · do-support	mayor	two talers	servant		for a skin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient taler=Theme for skin=Asset
3	come	past	the others					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not give	past · do-support	mayor		talers = taler			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	can	I				with all skins	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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