Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 1
Another day Chanticleer and Partlet agreed to go again to the mountains to eat nuts; and it was settled that all the nuts which they found should be shared equally between them.
Who acts: Chanticleer, nuts · What happens: agree, go, eat, settle, find, share · To what, where: mountains, nuts, it
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chanticleer, nuts), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Partlet | cc |
| 5 | Partlet | Partlet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Chanticleer | conj |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agreed | xcomp |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | advcl |
| 15 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 settled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 settled | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 settled | aux:pass |
| 20 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 agreed | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 shared | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 nuts | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nuts | det |
| 24 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 found | nsubj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 shared | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 shared | aux:pass |
| 30 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 settled | advcl |
| 31 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 30 shared | advmod |
| 32 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shared | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Chanticleer and Partlet | day | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chanticleer and Partlet not said here | the mountains | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Chanticleer and Partlet not said here | nuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 4 | settle | past · passive | it | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 5 | find | past | all nuts | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | share | should · passive | all nuts | between Chanticleer; equally 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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