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title: Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chant… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them. Who acts: Chanticleer. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, with its dependency tree and th
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 9

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Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them.

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**Who acts:** Chanticleer · **What happens:** come up, give, leave, get, go · **To what, where:** millstone, carriage

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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 (Chanticleer), 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:pg2591:17:9
# text = Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past |  | a millstone and a egg |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Chanticleer |  | millstone |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | present | Chanticleer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Chanticleer *not said here* |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | Chanticleer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Chanticleer | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |

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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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