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title: ‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.’ Who acts: nuts, Chanticleer, we, squirrel. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the M
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 1

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‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.’

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**Who acts:** nuts, Chanticleer, we, squirrel · **What happens:** be, say, go together, eat, take away · **To what, where:** wife Partlet, suppose, many, nuts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, Chanticleer, we, squirrel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:16:1
# text = ‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Partlet	partlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	suppose	suppose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nmod:unmarked	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the nuts |  |  |  | now | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Chanticleer |  | Chanticleer's wife Partlet |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to partlet=Recipient |
| 3 | **go together** | present | we | suppose *not said here* |  |  |  | to the mountains; together *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 5 | **take away** | present | the squirrel | nuts *= nut* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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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