Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 72
The shepherd hearing that, came up to him, and asked: ‘What are you about?
Who acts: shepherd hearing · What happens: come up, ask · To what, where: hearing
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 (shepherd hearing), 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 | 3 hearing | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hearing | compound |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hearing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 about | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 about | obj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 about | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 about | nsubj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 asked | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the shepherd hearing | hearing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the shepherd hearing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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