Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 25

Men have a firm step, and when they walk over peas none of them stir, but girls trip and skip, and drag their feet, and the peas roll about.’

Who acts: Men, none, girls, peas · What happens: have, walk over, stir, trip, skip, drag · To what, where: firm step, peas, feet

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, none, girls, peas), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 step	det
4	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 step	amod
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walk	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 walk	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
10	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 walk	obl
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 stir	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 none	nmod
16	stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 peas	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trip	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 trip	cc
19	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 trip	nsubj
20	trip	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 skip	cc
22	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 trip	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drag	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drag	cc
25	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drag	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 roll	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 roll	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 peas	det
31	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 roll	nsubj
32	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 roll	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Men	a firm step		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient
2	walk over	present	Men = man	peas	over property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stir	present	none	peas not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pea=Experiencer
4	trip	present	girls			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	skip	present	girls not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drag	present	Men not said here	peas's feet		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
7	roll about	present	the peas		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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