Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 2

When the money was being counted out to him, it so happened that the doctor was sitting at table, and when the peasant saw how well he ate and drank, his heart desired what he saw, and would willingly have been a doctor too.

Who acts: it, doctor, peasant, heart · What happens: count out, happen, sit, see, eat, drink · To what, where: money, peasant, table, doctor

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 (it, doctor, peasant, heart), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 counted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 counted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 counted	aux:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 counted	aux:pass
6	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 happened	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 counted	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 counted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 counted	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 happened	nsubj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 happened	advmod
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 sitting	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doctor	det
16	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sitting	aux
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 happened	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 table	case
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 saw	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 peasant	det
25	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 ate	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ate	nsubj
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drank	cc
32	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ate	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 desired	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heart	nmod:poss
35	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 desired	nsubj
36	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ate	conj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 saw	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 desired	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 doctor	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 doctor	cc
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 doctor	aux
43	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	47 doctor	advmod
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 doctor	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 doctor	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 doctor	det
47	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 happened	parataxis
48	too	too	ADV	_	47 doctor	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	count out	past · passive		the money	peasant			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to he=be'
2	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	the doctor			table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
4	see	past	the peasant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat	past	peasant				well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	peasant not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	desire	past	peasant's heart					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	see	past	doctor					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
9	is a	would · perfect		a doctor			willingly property	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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