Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 103

When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.

Who acts: water, boiling cook · What happens: boil, go, fetch, throw · To what, where: bedroom, Fundevogel, water, kettle

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 (water, boiling cook), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	8 boiling	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boiling	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kettle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boiling	aux
8	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cook	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boiling	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cook	det
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bedroom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bedroom	det
15	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fetch	mark
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl
18	Fundevogel	Fundevogel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throw	cc
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fetch	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	boil	past · progressive	the water in the kettle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	the boiling cook		the bedroom	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Initial_Location
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the boiling cook not said here	Fundevogel		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fundevogel=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	the boiling cook not said here	water	kettle	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into it=Result

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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