Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 6
Chanticleer ran to the bride, and said, ‘Bride, you must give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water, and the water I will carry to Partlet, who lies on the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.’
Who acts: Chanticleer, you, river, water, Partlet · What happens: run, say, give, carry, lie, choke · To what, where: Bride, silken cord, me, water, Partlet, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chanticleer, you, river, water), 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 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bride | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bride | det |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bride | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bride | punct |
| 11 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cord | det |
| 18 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cord | amod |
| 19 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 give | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 carry | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 carry | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carry | nsubj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 carry | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 carry | aux |
| 35 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Partlet | case |
| 37 | Partlet | Partlet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 carry | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lies | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 lies | nsubj |
| 40 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Partlet | acl:relcl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 mountain | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mountain | det |
| 43 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lies | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 choked | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 choked | cc |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 choked | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 choked | aux:pass |
| 48 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 nut | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 nut | det |
| 51 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 nut | amod |
| 52 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 choked | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Chanticleer | to the bride result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bride=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chanticleer not said here | Bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | must | you | a silken cord | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cord=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | future | the river | water | me | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient water=Theme | ||
| 5 | carry | future | the water | Partlet | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to partlet=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lie | present | Partlet | the mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location | ||||
| 7 | choke | future · passive | Chanticleer not said here | by a great nut | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V» |
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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