--- title: At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautif… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautiful house, and the peasants said: ‘The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.’ Who acts: miller, peasants, small peasant, golden snow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, peasants, small peasant, golden snow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:28:60 # text = At home the small peasant gradually launched out; he built a beautiful house, and the peasants said: ‘The small peasant has certainly been to the place where golden snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 gradually gradually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 launched launch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 26 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 32 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 home home ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 shovels shovel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **launch out** | participle · passive | | the small peasant | | home | | gradually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at home=Destination | | 2 | **build** | past | miller | a beautiful house | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the peasants | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | the small peasant | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | participle | | | | | | to the place; certainly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | present | golden snow | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **carry** | present | people | the gold | | shovels | | home *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Value in shovel=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/61/) - ↑ back to [The Little Peasant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/)