--- title: Then said they: ‘There is nothing to be done here,’ and they went ho… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then said they: ‘There is nothing to be done here,’ and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it. Who acts: servants. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticlee --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/112/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/) / 112 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 112 Then said they: ‘There is nothing to be done here,’ and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it. **Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** say, do, go, tell, see · **To what, where:** cook, nothing, forest · **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 (servants), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:18:112 # text = Then said they: ‘There is nothing to be done here,’ and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 12 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 iobj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ _ 27 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servants *= servant* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | servants *= servant* *not said here* | | | here | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **go** | past | servants *= servant* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | | the cook | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **see** | past · perfect | servants *= servant* | nothing | | the forest | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/113/) - ↑ back to [3. 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