Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 81

They believed no otherwise than that it was the peasant who was saying this, and answered: ‘That is what we intend, but first you shall look about you a little down below there,’ and they rolled the barrel down into the water.

Who acts: peasants, barrel, peasant, That, we, you · What happens: believe, be, say, answer, intend, look · To what, where: this, barrel, water · 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 (peasants, barrel, peasant, That), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 peasant	det
4	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	10 peasant	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	10 peasant	case
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 peasant	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 peasant	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 peasant	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasant	det
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	aux
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 peasant	acl:relcl
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 saying	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 answered	cc
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
20	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 what	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 answered	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 intend	nsubj
24	intend	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 look	cc
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 look	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 look	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 look	aux
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 believed	parataxis
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 look	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 down	advmod
35	down	down	ADV	_	30 look	advmod
36	below	below	ADV	_	37 there	advmod
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 down	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rolled	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 rolled	nsubj
42	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 barrel	det
44	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rolled	obj
45	down	down	ADV	_	42 rolled	advmod
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rolled	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	peasants = peasant				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	barrel			than no peasant; otherwise property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · progressive	no peasant	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	past					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	That				tree rules
6	intend	present	we				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	look	shall	you			about you; down, first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme
8	roll down	past	peasants = peasant	the barrel	the water	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme into water=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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