Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 93

Now the forester had an old cook, who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many times, out to the spring.

Who acts: forester, old cook · What happens: have, take, begin, fetch, not go · To what, where: old cook, two pails, water

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 (forester, old cook), 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	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forester	det
3	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cook	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cook	amod
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 took	nsubj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 evening	nummod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl:unmarked
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cook	acl:relcl
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pails	nummod
14	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fetch	mark
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 go	advmod
26	only	only	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 out	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 out	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 times	amod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 out	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 out	punct
32	out	out	ADV	_	4 had	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 spring	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 spring	det
35	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 out	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the forester	a old cook	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Patient
2	take	past	a old cook	two pails	evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme
3	begin	past	a old cook not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fetch	to-infinitive	a old cook not said here	water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	not go	past · do-support	the forester not said here			once property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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