Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 122
And the cook scolded them and said: ‘You fools! why did you not pull the church to pieces, and bring the chandelier home with you?’
Who acts: cook, You, fools · What happens: scold, say, fool, not pull, bring · To what, where: servants, church, pieces, chandelier · 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 (cook, You, fools), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 scolded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scolded | nsubj |
| 4 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scolded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 fools | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fools | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fools | nsubj |
| 11 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pull | nsubj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 fools | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 pull | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pull | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pull | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pull | advmod |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pull | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pull | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bring | cc |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chandelier | det |
| 26 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 bring | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | the cook | servants = servant | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cook not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fool | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not pull | past · do-support | fools | the church | pieces | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent church=Theme to piece=Destination | |||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | the chandelier | with you; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chandelier=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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