--- title: When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great pr… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage. Who acts: peasants. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Little Peasant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/) / 63 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 63 When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage. **Who acts:** peasants · **What happens:** hear, wish, enjoy, run, kill, strip off · **To what, where:** great profit, cows, skins, peasants, greatest advantage, town This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants), 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:pg2591:28:63 # text = When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 profit profit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stripped strip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 27 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 31 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 fixed _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 41 amod _ _ 41 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the peasants | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **wish** | past | peasants *= peasant* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **enjoy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | this great profit | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer profit=Stimulus | | 4 | **run** | past | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | past | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | peasants's cows | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | | 6 | **strip off** | participle | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | peasants's skins | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 7 | **sell** | to-infinitive | peasants *= peasant* *not said here* | peasants *= peasant* | the greatest advantage | the town | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to advantage=Recipient | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/64/) - ↑ back to [The Little Peasant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/)