Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 66

Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the mayor.

What happens: vex, outwit, want, take, accuse · To what, where: peasants, small peasant, vengeance, mayor

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: 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	5 vexed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasants	det
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vexed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	aux:pass
5	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 outwitted	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peasant	amod
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 outwitted	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 outwitted	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 outwitted	aux
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	13 outwitted	advmod
13	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 vexed	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 outwitted	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accused	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 accused	cc
24	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 accused	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 treachery	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 treachery	det
28	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accused	obl
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 mayor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mayor	det
31	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accused	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive	the peasants	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	outwit	should · perfect · passive	the small peasant		thus property	tree rules
3	want	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	vengeance		on mayor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme on he=Destination
5	accuse	past	mayor	before the mayor	of this treachery	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of treachery=Attribute

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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