Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 96
So Lina said, no, she would never repeat it to anyone, and then the cook said: ‘Early tomorrow morning, when the forester is out hunting, I will heat the water, and when it is boiling in the kettle, I will throw in Fundevogel, and will boil him in it.’
Who acts: Lina, cook, forester, I · What happens: say, not repeat, hunt, heat, boil, throw · To what, where: cook, anyone, water, Fundevogel · 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 (Lina, cook, forester, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeat | punct |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 repeat | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 repeat | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 repeat | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 repeat | advmod |
| 10 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 repeat | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 anyone | case |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 repeat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 said | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cook | det |
| 18 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 morning | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 morning | punct |
| 22 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 morning | amod |
| 23 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 morning | compound |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hunting | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 hunting | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forester | det |
| 28 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hunting | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hunting | aux |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 hunting | advmod |
| 31 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 morning | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 heat | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 heat | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 heat | aux |
| 35 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hunting | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heat | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 boiling | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 boiling | cc |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 boiling | advmod |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 boiling | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 boiling | aux |
| 43 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 kettle | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 kettle | det |
| 46 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 boiling | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 throw | punct |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 throw | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 throw | aux |
| 50 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 Fundevogel | case |
| 52 | Fundevogel | Fundevogel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 throw | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 boil | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 boil | cc |
| 55 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 boil | aux |
| 56 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 throw | conj |
| 57 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 boil | obj |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 it | case |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 boil | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 61 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not repeat | would | Lina | cook | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | then; morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hunt | present · progressive | the forester | out property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | heat | future | I | the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 6 | boil | present · progressive | cook | in the kettle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in kettle=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | throw | future | I | Fundevogel | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in fundevogel=Destination | ||||
| 8 | boil | future | I not said here | water | in cook | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in it=Instrument |
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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