Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 1
Another day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out together; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.
Who acts: Chanticleer, Partlet · What happens: wish, ride out, build, harness, get, drive · To what, where: handsome carriage, six mice, carriage
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Partlet | cc |
| 6 | Partlet | Partlet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chanticleer | conj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 built | advmod |
| 14 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 built | nsubj |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wished | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 carriage | det |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carriage | amod |
| 18 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wheels | case |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 wheels | nummod |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wheels | amod |
| 22 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 built | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 harnessed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 harnessed | cc |
| 25 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wished | conj |
| 26 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 mice | nummod |
| 27 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 harnessed | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 harnessed | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 got | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 got | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 got | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 got | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Partlet | cc |
| 35 | Partlet | Partlet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 he | conj |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wished | parataxis |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 carriage | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 carriage | det |
| 39 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 drove | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 drove | cc |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 drove | advmod |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 drove | nsubj |
| 44 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 got | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Chanticleer and Partlet | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chanticleer and Partlet not said here | out, together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build | past | Chanticleer | a handsome carriage | with four red wheels | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme with wheel=Source | |||
| 4 | harness | past | Chanticleer and Partlet not said here | six mice | carriage | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | get | past | Partlet | the carriage | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination | |||
| 6 | drive | past | Chanticleer | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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