Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 64
In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.
Who acts: I, squire, pig · What happens: come, have, steal · To what, where: village, pig, sty
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, squire, pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:102): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 village | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 village | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 village | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squire | det |
| 10 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pig | det |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sty | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sty | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stolen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | the village not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location village=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | the squire | a pig | the village | tree rules | |||
| 3 | steal | participle | a pig not said here | squire's sty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sty=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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