Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 105
Then she was terribly alarmed, and she said to herself: ‘What shall I say now when the forester comes home and sees that the children are gone?
Who acts: FUNDEVOGEL, I, forester, children · What happens: alarm, say, come, see, be · To what, where: FUNDEVOGEL · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (FUNDEVOGEL, I, forester, children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 say | obj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 say | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 comes | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forester | det |
| 21 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | ccomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 comes | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sees | cc |
| 25 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 comes | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 gone | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 children | det |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gone | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gone | cop |
| 30 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sees | ccomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | FUNDEVOGEL | then | terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | FUNDEVOGEL | FUNDEVOGEL | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | shall | I | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the forester | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | present | the forester not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the children | go 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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