Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 26

Then he sat down by the grave, and wept and mourned, till at last he died too; and so all were dead.

Who acts: stone, all · What happens: sit down, weep, mourn, die, be · To what, where: last

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, all), 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	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 grave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grave	det
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wept	cc
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mourned	cc
12	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wept	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
14	till	till	ADP	_	16 last	case
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mourned	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 last	acl:relcl
19	too	too	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dead	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 dead	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 dead	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	stone		then	by the grave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
2	weep	past	stone not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mourn	past	stone not said here	last			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer last=Stimulus
4	die	past	stone	last not said here			tree rules
5	is	past	all			dead property	tree rules

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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