Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 5
Then the cat said, ‘Take me with you,’ Chanticleer said, ‘With all my heart: get up behind, and be sure you do not fall off.’
Who acts: cat, Chanticleer, you · What happens: say, take, get up, be, not fall off · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cat, Chanticleer, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 7 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Take | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 Take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 13 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 heart | punct |
| 17 | With | with | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 heart | det:predet |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 get | compound:prt |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sure | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sure | cc |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sure | cop |
| 28 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 fall | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 fall | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 fall | advmod |
| 32 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sure | ccomp |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 fall | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | me | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Chanticleer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get up | infinitive | Chanticleer not said here | behind property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | Chanticleer not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not fall off | present · do-support | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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