Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 128

The cook, however, came up to them, and when she saw the pond she lay down by it, and was about to drink it up.

Who acts: cook, Lina, pond · What happens: come up, see, lie down, be, drink up · To what, where: servants, pond · 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, Lina, pond), 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 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pond	det
16	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	ccomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 lay	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 about	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 about	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 about	cop
25	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drink	mark
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 about	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drink	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 drink	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the cook		servants = servant	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	see	past	Lina				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lie down	past	the pond			by duck	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location
4	is	past	Lina not said here			about property	tree rules
5	drink up	to-infinitive	Lina not said here	pond			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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