Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 86

Said the peasants: ‘Are there any more there?’

What happens: say, be · To what, where: peasants · 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: 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasants	det
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Said	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Are	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Are	punct
6	Are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 Are	expl
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Are	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the peasants					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic
2	be	present				there; there			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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