Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 8

But the little peasant stood at his door, and waited for his little calf, and when the cow-herd drove the cows through the village, and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was.

Who acts: little peasant, cow herd, calf, village · What happens: stand, wait, drive, be, inquire · To what, where: door, cows, village · 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 (little peasant, cow herd, calf, village), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 stood	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasant	amod
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 door	nmod:poss
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 waited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waited	cc
11	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 calf	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 calf	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calf	amod
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waited	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drove	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 drove	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 herd	det
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 herd	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cow	punct
22	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	nsubj
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waited	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cows	det
25	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drove	obj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 village	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 village	det
28	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 missing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 missing	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 calf	det
32	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 missing	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 missing	cop
34	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 inquired	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 inquired	nsubj
37	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 missing	conj
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 was	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 was	nsubj
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 inquired	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the little peasant		village's door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	wait	past				for village's little calf	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	the cow herd	the cows	the village		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme through village=Trajectory
4	is	past	the calf			missing property	tree rules
5	inquire speech: other	past	village				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	past	calf				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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