Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 1

‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.’

Who acts: nuts, Chanticleer, we, squirrel · What happens: be, say, go together, eat, take away · To what, where: wife Partlet, suppose, many, nuts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, Chanticleer, we, squirrel), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 ripe	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nuts	det
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ripe	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ripe	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 ripe	advmod
6	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ripe	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ripe	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 ripe	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Partlet	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Partlet	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Partlet	compound
15	Partlet	partlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suppose	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 suppose	punct
18	suppose	suppose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Partlet	appos
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 suppose	acl:relcl
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 mountains	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mountains	det
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
27	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eat	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 can	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 can	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 many	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 takes	punct
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 takes	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 squirrel	det
36	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 takes	nsubj
37	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 takes	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 them	nmod:unmarked
40	away	away	ADV	_	37 takes	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the nuts			now	ripe property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Chanticleer		Chanticleer's wife Partlet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to partlet=Recipient
3	go together	present	we	suppose not said here			to the mountains; together property	tree rules
4	eat	present		many				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
5	take away	present	the squirrel	nuts = nut			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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