Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 9
The cow-herd answered: ‘It is still standing out there eating.
Who acts: cow herd, calf · What happens: answer, stand out, eat
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 (cow herd, calf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 herd | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herd | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 cow | punct |
| 4 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 standing | advmod |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 standing | compound:prt |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 standing | advmod |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 standing | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the cow herd | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand out | present · progressive | calf | there | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | calf not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/9/