Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 130
Then the children went home together, and were heartily delighted, and if they have not died, they are living still.
Who acts: children, fools · What happens: go, be, not die, live
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 delighted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 delighted | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 delighted | cop |
| 10 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 11 delighted | advmod |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 died | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 died | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 died | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 died | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 died | advmod |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 delighted | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 living | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 living | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 living | aux |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 living | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the children | then | home, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | delighted, heartily property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not die a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | fools = fool | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | live | present · progressive | fools = fool | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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