Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 120

They said therefore to each other: ‘What can we do here, let us go home.’

Who acts: servants, us · What happens: say, let, go · To what, where: us · 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, us), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 said	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 do	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	servants = servant		to each; therefore property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to each=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive · do-support		us		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	us not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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