Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 77

The shepherd was willing, and got in, and the peasant shut the top down on him; then he took the shepherd’s flock for himself, and drove it away.

Who acts: shepherd, peasant, mayor · What happens: be, get in, shut down, take, drive away · To what, where: top, flock

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, peasant, mayor), 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 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 willing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	cop
4	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	parataxis
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shut	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peasant	det
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	nsubj
13	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	obj
16	down	down	ADV	_	13 shut	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shut	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 took	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shepherd	det
24	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flock	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 shepherd	case
26	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 took	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drove	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drove	cc
31	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drove	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 drove	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shepherd			willing property	tree rules
2	get in	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	shut down	past	the peasant	the top		on mayor; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent top=Patient
4	take	past	mayor	the shepherd's flock	then	for mayor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flock=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
5	drive away	past	mayor not said here	top		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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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