Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 10

And six mice built a little hearse to carry her to her grave; and when it was ready they harnessed themselves before it, and Chanticleer drove them.

Who acts: six mice, hearse, mice, Chanticleer · What happens: build, carry, be, harness, drive · To what, where: little hearse, Partlet, grave, mice

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six mice, hearse, mice, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 built	cc
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 mice	nummod
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hearse	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hearse	amod
7	hearse	hearse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hearse	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carry	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grave	nmod:poss
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ready	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 ready	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ready	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 built	advcl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 harnessed	nsubj
21	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	acl:relcl
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 harnessed	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 harnessed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drove	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drove	cc
27	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 drove	nsubj
28	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drove	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	six mice	a little hearse				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearse=Product
2	carry	to-infinitive	six mice not said here	Partlet	Partlet's grave			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to grave=Destination
3	is	past	hearse				ready property	tree rules
4	harness	past	mice = mouse	mice = mouse		before hearse		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination
5	drive	past	Chanticleer	mice = mouse				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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