Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 111
When the three servants came to the forest, nothing was there but a rose-tree and one rose on it, but the children were nowhere.
Who acts: three servants, children · What happens: come, be · To what, where: forest
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 (three servants, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 servants | nummod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 nothing | acl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tree | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rose | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 rose | nummod |
| 20 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rose | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nowhere | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 nowhere | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 children | det |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 nowhere | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 nowhere | cop |
| 28 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 came | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the three servants | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the children | nowhere 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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