Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 67
The innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death, and was to be rolled into the water, in a barrel pierced full of holes.
What happens: sentence, roll, pierce · To what, where: innocent little peasant, water, barrel
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peasant | det |
| 2 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peasant | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peasant | amod |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sentenced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sentenced | aux:pass |
| 6 | unanimously | unanimously | ADV | _ | 7 sentenced | advmod |
| 7 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sentenced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rolled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rolled | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rolled | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rolled | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rolled | aux:pass |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sentenced | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 barrel | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 barrel | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 barrel | det |
| 22 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 23 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 barrel | acl |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pierced | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 holes | case |
| 26 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 full | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sentence | past · passive | the innocent little peasant | to death; unanimously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | the water | in a barrel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: into water=Source in barrel=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pierce | participle | a barrel not said here | full property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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