Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 7
The peasant did everything that he had been told to do.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: everything, peasant · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 told | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | aux:pass |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the peasant | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | peasant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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