Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 115
The children, however, saw them coming from a distance.
Who acts: children, simpletons · What happens: see, come · To what, where: simpletons
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, simpletons), 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 | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 children | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the children | simpletons = simpleton | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | simpletons = simpleton not said here | from a distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial_Location |
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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