Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 123

And now the old cook herself got on her legs, and went with the three servants in pursuit of the children.

Who acts: old cook · What happens: get, go, pursue · To what, where: legs, children

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 (old cook), 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	_	7 got	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cook	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	amod
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 servants	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 servants	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 servants	nummod
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 pursuit	case
19	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 servants	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 children	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pursuit	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the old cook		Lina's legs		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source
2	go	past	the old cook not said here			with the three servants in pursuit of the children	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with servant=Beneficiary
3	pursue			the children			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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