Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 9
Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them.
Who acts: Chanticleer · What happens: come up, give, leave, get, go · To what, where: millstone, 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), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 millstone | det |
| 6 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 egg | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 egg | det |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 millstone | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 duck | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 millstone | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pin | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pin | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pin | det |
| 16 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 19 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 leave | advmod |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gave | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 carriage | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 carriage | det |
| 28 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 get | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 go | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | a millstone and a egg | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Chanticleer | millstone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | Chanticleer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Chanticleer not said here | the carriage | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Chanticleer not said here | with Chanticleer | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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