Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 13

Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet’s toes.

Who acts: Chanticleer, blows, carriage · What happens: observe, be, not be, take up, tell, ride · To what, where: thin fellows, much room, blows, wheels, toes · 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 (Chanticleer, blows, carriage), 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	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
2	observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Chanticleer	acl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fellows	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fellows	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fellows	cop
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fellows	cc
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 observing	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likely	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 likely	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 likely	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 take	compound:prt
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 room	amod
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Chanticleer	punct
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ride	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ride	aux
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 dirty	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 dirty	mark
31	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promise	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wheels	det
33	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dirty	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 carriage	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 carriage	det
36	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wheels	nmod
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	38 getting	mark
38	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 carriage	acl
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 getting	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tread	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	43 tread	cc
42	to	to	PART	_	43 tread	mark
43	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promise	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 toes	case
45	Partlet	Partlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 toes	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 Partlet	case
47	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 tread	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	observe	gerund	Chanticleer not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	blows = blow	thin fellows			tree rules
3	not be		blows = blow not said here				tree rules
4	take up	to-infinitive	blows = blow not said here	much room			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Chanticleer		blows = blow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	ride	might	blows = blow				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	make	past	Chanticleer not said here	blows = blow			tree rules
8	promise speech: promise	infinitive	blows = blow not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not dirty not said to happen	to-infinitive		the wheels of the carriage			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient
10	get in	gerund	the carriage not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
11	tread	to-infinitive	blows = blow not said here			Partlet's toes	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory

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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