Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 82

After that the peasants went home, and as they were entering the village, the small peasant also came quietly in, driving a flock of sheep and looking quite contented.

Who acts: peasants, small peasant · What happens: go, enter, come, drive, look, content · To what, where: village, 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 (peasants, small peasant), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 went	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasants	det
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 entering	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 entering	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entering	aux
12	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entering	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entering	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 peasant	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 peasant	amod
18	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	22 in	advmod
22	in	in	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 driving	punct
24	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flock	det
26	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 driving	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 sheep	case
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flock	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looking	cc
30	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 driving	conj
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 contented	advmod
32	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 looking	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the peasants		after that	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	enter	past · progressive	peasants = peasant	the village			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Destination
3	come	past	the small peasant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drive	gerund	the small peasant not said here	a flock of sheep			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory
5	look	gerund	the small peasant not said here				tree rules
6	content	participle	the small peasant not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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