Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 89

So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried: ‘We already see the sheep down below!’

Who acts: peasants, We · What happens: go, call, reflect, cry, see · To what, where: water, small fleecy clouds, 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, We), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 some	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 some	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 were	advmod
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 were	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 some	cop
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 went	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 clouds	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clouds	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clouds	amod
18	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clouds	amod
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 some	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sky	amod
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clouds	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 called	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 clouds	acl
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lambs	amod
29	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 reflected	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 reflected	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reflected	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 reflected	aux:pass
34	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 water	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reflected	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cried	punct
39	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	42 cried	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 peasants	det
41	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cried	nsubj
42	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 water	acl:relcl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
44	‘	'	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
45	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 see	nsubj
46	already	already	ADV	_	47 see	advmod
47	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sheep	det
49	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 see	obj
50	down	down	ADV	_	51 below	advmod
51	below	below	ADV	_	47 see	advmod
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	peasants = peasant		the water	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location
2	call	present · passive		the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	reflect	past · passive		peasants = peasant	the water		tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	the peasants			whereupon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	present	We	the sheep		below property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus

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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