Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 108
The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: ‘Never leave me, and I will never leave you.’
Who acts: children, servants, afar three servants, Lina, I · What happens: sit, see, run, say, not leave · To what, where: forest, afar three servants, Fundevogel, me, you · 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 (children, servants, afar three servants, Lina), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 children | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 servants | case |
| 17 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 servants | amod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 servants | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 servants | nummod |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obl |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 servants | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Fundevogel | case |
| 26 | Fundevogel | Fundevogel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 leave | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 leave | punct |
| 29 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 leave | advmod |
| 30 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leave | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 leave | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 leave | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 leave | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 leave | advmod |
| 37 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 leave | conj |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 leave | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the children | the forest | however property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside forest=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | servants = servant | the afar three servants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | the afar three servants not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Lina | Fundevogel | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to fundevogel=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not leave | infinitive | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not leave | future | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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