--- title: Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likel… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet’s toes. Who acts: Chanticleer, blows, carriage. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [1. How They Went to the Mountains to E…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/) / 13 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 13 Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet’s toes. **Who acts:** Chanticleer, blows, carriage · **What happens:** observe, be, not be, take up, tell, ride · **To what, where:** thin fellows, much room, blows, wheels, toes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Chanticleer, blows, carriage), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:16:13 # text = Chanticleer observing that they were but thin fellows, and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride, but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in, nor to tread on Partlet’s toes. 1 Chanticleer chanticleer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 2 observing observe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 dirty dirty VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 in in SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 39 in in ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 43 cc _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 tread tread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 Partlet Partlet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **observe** | gerund | Chanticleer *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | blows *= blow* | thin fellows | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **be** | | blows *= blow* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take up** | to-infinitive | blows *= blow* *not said here* | much room | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Chanticleer | | blows *= blow* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **ride** | might | blows *= blow* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** | past | Chanticleer *not said here* | blows *= blow* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | blows *= blow* *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **not** **dirty** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the wheels of the carriage | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | | 10 | **get in** | gerund | the carriage *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **tread** | to-infinitive | blows *= blow* *not said here* | | | Partlet's toes | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/14/) - ↑ back to [1. 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