--- title: ‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticleer; ‘no, that will never do; I h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticleer; ‘no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I’ll not draw.’ Who acts: That, good joke, I, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/6/) [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/) / 6 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 6 ‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticleer; ‘no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I’ll not draw.’ **Who acts:** That, good joke, I, you · **What happens:** be, say, not do, have, walk, sit · **To what, where:** good joke, box, coachman · **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 (That, good joke, I, you), 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:pg2591:16:6 # text = ‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticleer; ‘no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I’ll not draw.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Chanticleer Chanticleer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 18 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 rather rather ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 25 obl _ _ 25 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 home home ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | That | a good joke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a good joke | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **do** | future | that | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **walk** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | by half; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by half=Trajectory | | 6 | **sit** | future | I | | | the box | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location | | 7 | **is a** | infinitive | I *not said here* | coachman | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 9 | **not** **draw** | future | I | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/16/7/) - ↑ back to [1. 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