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title: For we are going a visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For we are going a visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’ Who acts: we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 8

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For we are going a visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** go, pay · **To what, where:** visit, Mr

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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 (we), 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:pg2591:17:8
# text = For we are going a visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	To	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Korbes	Korbes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | we | a visit and the fox and today |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visit=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a visit and the fox and today *not said here* | Mr |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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