Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 85

‘Yes, truly,’ replied the peasant, ‘I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.’

Who acts: I, pretty meadows · What happens: reply, sink, get, push, creep out, be · To what, where: peasant, bottom, barrel, 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 (I, pretty meadows), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	truly	truly	ADV	_	7 replied	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 truly	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sank	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 sank	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sank	nsubj
13	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	advcl
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sank	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
16	deep	deep	ADV	_	17 down	advmod
17	down	down	ADV	_	14 deep	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 last	punct
19	until	until	ADP	_	21 last	case
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sank	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 last	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pushed	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 pushed	nsubj
29	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bottom	det
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pushed	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 barrel	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 barrel	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 barrel	det
35	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pushed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crept	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crept	cc
38	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 crept	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 were	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 were	cc
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 were	expl
43	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 feeding	advcl
44	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 meadows	amod
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 feeding	nsubj
46	on	on	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 feeding	obl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 number	det
49	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 feeding	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 lambs	case
51	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 number	nmod
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 feeding	aux
53	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 crept	advcl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 brought	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 brought	cc
56	from	from	ADP	_	57 thence	case
57	thence	thence	ADV	_	59 brought	obl
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 brought	nsubj
59	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	conj
60	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	61 flock	det
61	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 brought	obj
62	away	away	ADV	_	59 brought	advmod
63	with	with	ADP	_	64 me	case
64	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 brought	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
66	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the peasant			truly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic
2	sink	past	I			until last	deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	past	I				to the bottom result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result
4	push	past	I	the bottom	the barrel			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme out barrel=Trajectory
5	creep out	past						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past	pretty meadows not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	feed	past · progressive	pretty meadows					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on which=Patient
8	bring away	past	I	this flock			with me; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flock=Theme from thence=Initial_Location

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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