Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 13
‘To bury my Partlet,’ said the other.
Who acts: other · What happens: bury, say · To what, where: Partlet · 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 (other), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bury | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 bury | mark |
| 3 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Partlet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Partlet | partlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bury | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bury | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bury | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | to-infinitive | my Partlet | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partlet=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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