Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 2

Now Partlet found a very large nut; but she said nothing about it to Chanticleer, and kept it all to herself: however, it was so big that she could not swallow it, and it stuck in her throat.

Who acts: Partlet, it · What happens: find, say, keep, be, not swallow, stick · To what, where: large nut, nothing, Chanticleer, it, Partlet, throat · 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 (Partlet, it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	Partlet	Partlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nut	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nut	amod
7	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 said	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nothing	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Chanticleer	case
16	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 it	det
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 herself	case
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 kept	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 big	punct
25	however	however	ADV	_	30 big	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 however	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 big	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 big	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 big	advmod
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 swallow	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 swallow	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 swallow	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 swallow	advmod
35	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 big	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 swallow	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stuck	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stuck	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stuck	nsubj
40	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 throat	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 throat	nmod:poss
43	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stuck	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Partlet	a large nut			now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Partlet	nothing	Chanticleer			about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to chanticleer=Recipient
3	keep	past	Partlet not said here	it	Partlet				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	past	it					big, however property	tree rules
5	not swallow	could	Partlet	it					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	stick	past	it			Partlet's throat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination

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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