Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 119

So when the three servants came, nothing was there but a church, with a chandelier in it.

Who acts: three servants, nothing · What happens: come, be

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, nothing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 servants	nummod
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 there	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 church	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 church	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chandelier	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 chandelier	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chandelier	det
17	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chandelier	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the three servants					with a chandelier in chandelier	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	nothing					there 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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