Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 121
When they got home, the cook asked if they had not found them; so they said no, they had found nothing but a church, and there was a chandelier in it.
Who acts: servants, cook, chandelier · What happens: get, ask, not find, say, find, be · To what, where: pails, nothing · 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, cook, chandelier), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cook | det |
| 7 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 found | advmod |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 found | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 no | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 church | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 church | det |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 was | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 was | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 was | expl |
| 31 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 chandelier | det |
| 33 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 was | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 chandelier | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | servants = servant | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the cook | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not find a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | servants = servant | pails = pail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | servants = servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | servants = servant | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 6 | be | past | a chandelier in church | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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