Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 5

So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.

Who acts: Chanticleer, Partlet · What happens: begin, build, finish, jump, sit down, bid · To what, where: little carriage, carriage, Chanticleer harness, home

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, Partlet), 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 began	advmod
2	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 build	mark
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carriage	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carriage	amod
8	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nutshells	case
10	nutshells	nutshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carriage	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 finished	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 finished	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 finished	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 finished	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 finished	aux:pass
16	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jumped	punct
18	Partlet	Partlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	nsubj
19	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jumped	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 jumped	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bid	cc
27	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
28	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 harness	compound
29	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bid	obj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 bid	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bid	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 draw	cc
34	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bid	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 home	nmod:poss
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 draw	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Chanticleer					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	build	to-infinitive	Chanticleer not said here	a little carriage of nutshells				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset carriage=Product
3	finish	past · passive		carriage				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	jump	past	Partlet			carriage		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
5	sit down	past	Partlet not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bid	past		Chanticleer harness	carriage		Partlet obl	tree rules
7	draw	infinitive		squirrel's home				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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