Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 92
Then the entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.
Who acts: entire village, small peasant · What happens: be, become · To what, where: rich man
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 (entire village, small peasant), 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 | 6 dead | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 peasant | amod |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heir | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 heir | case |
| 14 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heir | amod |
| 15 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peasant | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 peasant | punct |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the entire village | then | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | the small peasant and sole heir | a rich man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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