Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 106
They must be followed instantly to get them back again.’
What happens: follow, get · To what, where: Chanticleer
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 followed | aux:pass |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 followed | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 again | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must · passive | Chanticleer | instantly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Chanticleer | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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