Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 112

Then said they: ‘There is nothing to be done here,’ and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it.

Who acts: servants · What happens: say, do, go, tell, see · To what, where: cook, nothing, forest · 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 (servants), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
6	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ’	cop
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 is	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 done	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux:pass
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nothing	acl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 done	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 told	ccomp
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 seen	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	nmod
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 bush	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bush	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bush	amod
34	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bush	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 rose	punct
36	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 rose	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 rose	nummod
39	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bush	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 rose	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	servants = servant				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	servants = servant not said here			here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	go	past	servants = servant					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	servants = servant not said here		the cook				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic
5	see	past · perfect	servants = servant	nothing		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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