Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 25
Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.
Who acts: stone · What happens: leave, dig, lay, make · To what, where: Chanticleer, grave, Partlet, little hillock
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 (stone), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Partlet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Partlet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Partlet | amod |
| 9 | Partlet | partlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dug | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dug | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dug | aux |
| 13 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 left | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grave | det |
| 15 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dug | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dug | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | nsubj |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dug | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laid | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hillock | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hillock | amod |
| 29 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Chanticleer | with stone's dead Partlet; alone, thus property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with partlet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | gerund · perfect | a grave | for Partlet | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Result for she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | stone | Partlet | grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | past | stone not said here | a little hillock | over Partlet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hillock=Product |
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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