Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 6

‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticleer; ‘no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I’ll not draw.’

Who acts: That, good joke, I, you · What happens: be, say, not do, have, walk, sit · To what, where: good joke, box, coachman · 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 (That, good joke, I, you), 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 joke	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 joke	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joke	amod
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
13	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	18 do	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 no	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 do	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 do	advmod
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 half	case
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 walk	obl
25	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 had	advcl
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 walk	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sit	nsubj
29	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	aux
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 box	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 box	det
33	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 coachman	cc
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 coachman	cop
36	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sit	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 like	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 like	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 like	nsubj
40	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 draw	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 draw	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 draw	nsubj
44	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 draw	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 draw	advmod
46	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sit	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good joke			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a good joke				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	future	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	I				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	walk	present	I not said here			by half; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by half=Trajectory
6	sit	future	I		the box		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location
7	is a	infinitive	I not said here	coachman			tree rules
8	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	not draw	future	I				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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