Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crabb, who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town, and sold it to a doctor for two talers.

Who acts: poor peasant · What happens: be, call, drive, sell · To what, where: poor peasant, load, town, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peasant	amod
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 peasant	acl
11	Crabb	Crabb	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 drove	nsubj
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 peasant	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 oxen	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 oxen	nummod
17	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drove	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 load	det
19	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wood	case
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 load	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 town	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sold	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sold	cc
27	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sold	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 doctor	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 doctor	det
31	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sold	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 talers	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 talers	nummod
34	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sold	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		a poor peasant not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drive	past	a poor peasant	a load of wood		the town		with two oxen	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent load=Theme to town=Trajectory
4	sell	past		load	a doctor			for two talers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to doctor=Recipient for taler=Asset

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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