Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 78
The parson went to the crowd, and declared that the mass had been said.
Who acts: parson · What happens: go, declare, say · To what, where: crowd, mass · 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 (parson), 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 parson | det |
| 2 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 crowd | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 declared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 declared | cc |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mass | det |
| 12 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 declared | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the parson | the crowd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crowd=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the parson not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the mass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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