Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 16
Then the fox got up behind; and presently the wolf, the bear, the goat, and all the beasts of the wood, came and climbed upon the hearse.
Who acts: fox, beasts · What happens: get up, come, climb · To what, where: wolf, hearse
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 (fox, beasts), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 behind | advmod |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wolf | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wolf | cc |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 11 wolf | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bear | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wolf | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 goat | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goat | det |
| 17 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wolf | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 beasts | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beasts | det |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 came | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beasts | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beasts | punct |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 climbed | cc |
| 29 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 hearse | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hearse | det |
| 32 | hearse | hearse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 climbed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the fox | the wolf and the bear and the goat | then | behind property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | come | past | all beasts of the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | climb | past | all beasts of the wood not said here | the hearse | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hearse=Trajectory |
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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