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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

advmodnsubjadvcladvmodpunctdetnsubjmarknsubjauxadvmodccompobjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisdiscoursepunctnsubjauxccompobjccdetconjpunctccexplparataxisdetnsubjcasenmodpunctrootWhenADVtheyPRONgotVERBhomeADV,PUNCTtheDETcookNOUNaskedVERBifSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXnotPARTfoundVERBthemPRON;PUNCTsoADVtheyPRONsaidVERBnoINTJ,PUNCTtheyPRONhadAUXfoundVERBnothingPRONbutCCONJaDETchurchNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONwasVERBaDETchandelierNOUNinADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 gotadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 askedadvcl
4homehomeADV_3 gotadvmod
5,,PUNCT_3 gotpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 cookdet
7cookcookNOUNNumber=Sing8 askednsubj
8askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9ififSCONJ_13 foundmark
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 foundnsubj
11hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 foundaux
12notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 foundadvmod
13foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 askedccomp
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 foundobj
15;;PUNCT_18 saidpunct
16sosoADV_18 saidadvmod
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 saidnsubj
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 askedparataxis
19nonoINTJPolarity=Neg23 founddiscourse
20,,PUNCT_19 nopunct
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 foundnsubj
22hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 foundaux
23foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 saidccomp
24nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg23 foundobj
25butbutCCONJ_27 churchcc
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 churchdet
27churchchurchNOUNNumber=Sing24 nothingconj
28,,PUNCT_31 waspunct
29andandCCONJ_31 wascc
30theretherePRONPronType=Dem31 wasexpl
31wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 askedparataxis
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 chandelierdet
33chandelierchandelierNOUNNumber=Sing31 wasnsubj
34ininADP_35 itcase
35ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 chandeliernmod
36..PUNCT_8 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastservants = servanthome propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2ask speech: askpastthe cookvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not find a condition, not said to happenpast · perfectservants = servantpails = pailvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4say speech: assertpastservants = servantvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5findpast · perfectservants = servantnothingvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
6bepasta chandelier in churchtherevn 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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