Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 80

When the barrel began to roll, the shepherd cried: ‘I am quite willing to be mayor.’

Who acts: barrel, shepherd, I · What happens: begin, roll, cry, be · To what, where: mayor

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 (barrel, shepherd, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roll	mark
6	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shepherd	det
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 willing	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 willing	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 willing	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 willing	advmod
16	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	19 mayor	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 mayor	cop
19	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 willing	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 willing	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the barrel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roll	to-infinitive	the barrel not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the shepherd			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		willing property	tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	mayor		tree rules

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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