Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 59

Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: ‘It must have rained peas, last night.’

Who acts: king, track, poor children · What happens: send out, seek, be, sit, pick up, say · To what, where: rained peas, people, track, street, peas, It · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, track, poor children), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 seek	mark
10	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 track	det
12	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seek	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vain	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 vain	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 vain	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 vain	cop
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 vain	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sent	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sitting	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 sitting	mark
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 street	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 street	det
24	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 children	amod
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sitting	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sitting	aux
28	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 vain	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 picking	punct
30	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sitting	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 picking	compound:prt
32	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 picking	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saying	cc
35	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sitting	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 rained	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 rained	punct
38	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rained	nsubj:pass
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 rained	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 rained	aux
41	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 peas	amod
42	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 night	punct
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 night	amod
45	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 peas	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	the king	rained peas and last night	king's people		morning	out property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Destination pea=Theme
2	seek	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the track					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme
3	is	past	track					all, vain property	tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	poor children			every street			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location
5	pick up	gerund	poor children not said here	peas					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Topic
6	say speech: assert	gerund	poor children not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	rain	must · perfect · passive		It					tree rules

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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