Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 88

Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some sheep for themselves, a flock apiece, but the mayor said: ‘I come first.’

Who acts: peasants, mayor, I · What happens: make up, fetch, say, come, mind · To what, where: peasants, sheep · 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, mayor, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasants	det
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 minds	nmod:poss
7	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 fetch	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fetch	nsubj
10	too	too	ADV	_	12 fetch	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fetch	aux
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sheep	det
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fetch	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 fetch	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 apiece	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 apiece	det
19	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 apiece	compound
20	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fetch	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mayor	det
24	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	conj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle · passive		the peasants	then		tree rules
2	fetch	would	peasants = peasant	some sheep		for peasants = peasant; a flock apiece obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme for themselves=Source
3	say speech: assert	past	the mayor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	I			first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mind		peasants = peasant				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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