Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 124

The children, however, saw from afar that the three servants were coming, and the cook waddling after them.

Who acts: children, three servants, cook · What happens: see, come, waddle · To what, where: cook

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 (children, three servants, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 afar	case
8	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 coming	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servants	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 servants	nummod
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 coming	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coming	aux
14	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 afar	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cook	det
18	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
19	waddling	waddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 cook	acl
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 waddling	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children	the cook		afar, however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past · progressive	the three servants				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	waddle	gerund	the cook not said here		after servants = servant		vn run-51.3.2 «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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