Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 7

At night when he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to the calf: ‘If you can stand there and eat your fill, you can also go on your four legs; I don’t care to drag you home again in my arms.’

Who acts: village, you, I · What happens: go, drive, say, stand, eat, not care · To what, where: herd, fill, four legs, you, arms · 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 (village, you, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 going	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drive	mark
8	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 herd	det
10	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drive	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	8 drive	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 drive	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 calf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 calf	det
18	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct
21	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 stand	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 stand	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stand	aux
24	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stand	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stand	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fill	nmod:poss
29	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
33	also	also	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stand	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 legs	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 legs	nmod:poss
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 legs	nummod
38	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 go	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 care	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 care	nsubj
41	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 care	aux
42	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 care	advmod
43	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stand	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 drag	mark
45	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 care	xcomp
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 drag	obj
47	home	home	ADV	_	45 drag	advmod
48	again	again	ADV	_	45 drag	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 arms	case
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 arms	nmod:poss
51	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 drag	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	village					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	to-infinitive	village not said here	the herd		again	home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	village			night	to the calf	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to calf=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	stand a condition, not said to happen	can	you		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	infinitive	you not said here	your fill				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
6	go	can	you		your four legs			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on leg=Location
7	not care	present · do-support	I					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	drag	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	my arms	again	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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