Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 107

Then the cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.

Who acts: cook · What happens: send, run, overtake · To what, where: three servants, children

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 servants	nummod
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 run	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 run	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 run	mark
13	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 overtake	cc
15	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 run	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 overtake	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	send	past	the cook	three servants	after servants = servant; then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	run	past				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overtake	infinitive		the children		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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