Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 113
Then the old cook scolded and said: ‘You simpletons, you should have cut the rose-bush in two, and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you; go, and do it at once.’
Who acts: old cook, You · What happens: scold, say, simpleton, cut, break off, bring · To what, where: you, two, rose, bush · 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 (old cook, You), 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 | 5 scolded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cook | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cook | amod |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scolded | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 simpletons | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 simpletons | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 simpletons | nsubj |
| 11 | simpletons | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cut | aux |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 simpletons | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bush | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cut | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broken | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broken | cc |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 broken | aux |
| 26 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 simpletons | parataxis |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 rose | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rose | det |
| 29 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 broken | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brought | cc |
| 31 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 broken | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | obj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 brought | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 brought | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 go | punct |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scolded | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 do | cc |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 go | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 do | obj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 once | case |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 do | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scolded | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | the old cook | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old cook not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | simpleton | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cut | should · perfect · passive | you | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bush=Product | ||||
| 5 | break off | present · perfect | the rose | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Patient | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | bush | with you; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | the old cook not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | do | infinitive | the old cook not said here | bush | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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