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How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 10 When they arrived at Mr Korbes’s house, he was not at home; so the mice drew the carriage into the coach-house, Chanticleer and Partlet flew upon a beam, the cat sat down in the fireplace, the duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the bed pillow, the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled himself up in the towel. **Who acts:** Chanticleer, Korbes, mice, cat, duck, pin · **What happens:** arrive, not be, draw, fly, sit down, get · **To what, where:** house, home, carriage, coach house, fireplace, washing cistern This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chanticleer, Korbes, mice, cat), 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:pg2591:17:10 # text = When they arrived at Mr Korbes’s house, he was not at home; so the mice drew the carriage into the coach-house, Chanticleer and Partlet flew upon a beam, the cat sat down in the fireplace, the duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the bed pillow, the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled himself up in the towel. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Korbes Korbes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Chanticleer Chanticleer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Partlet Partlet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 down down ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 cistern cistern NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 54 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 55 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 54 obj _ _ 56 into into ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 pillow pillow NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 millstone millstone NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 63 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 acl:relcl _ _ 64 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 63 obj _ _ 65 over over ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 compound _ _ 68 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nsubj _ _ 73 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 74 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 73 obj _ _ 75 up up ADP RP _ 73 compound:prt _ _ 76 in in ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 77 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 78 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | Chanticleer | | | Mr Korbes's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | Korbes | | | home | | | tree rules | | 3 | **draw** | past | the mice | the carriage | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | past | Chanticleer and Partlet | | | the coach house | | upon a beam | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon beam=Location | | 5 | **sit down** | past | the cat | | | the fireplace | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fireplace=Location | | 6 | **get** | past | the duck | | | the washing cistern | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cistern=Destination | | 7 | **stick** | past | the pin | duck | | the bed pillow | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into pillow=Destination | | 8 | **lay** | past | the millstone | duck | | the house door | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme over door=Destination | | 9 | **roll up** | past | the egg | duck | | the towel | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in towel=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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/17/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/17/11/) - ↑ back to [2. 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