Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 69

The others were all obliged to retire to a distance, and when the peasant looked at the priest, he recognized the man who had been with the miller’s wife.

Who acts: peasant, other · What happens: oblige, retire, look, recognize · To what, where: others, man

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 (peasant, other), 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	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 obliged	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 obliged	advmod
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 retire	mark
7	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 obliged	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 distance	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retire	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 recognized	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 recognized	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 looked	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 recognized	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 priest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 priest	det
19	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 recognized	nsubj
22	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recognized	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 been	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 been	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 man	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	32 wife	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 miller	det
30	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wife	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 miller	case
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 been	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		the others	all property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	retire	to-infinitive			to a distance	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the peasant		at the priest	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at priest=Theme
4	recognize	past	other	the man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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