--- title: Chanticleer ran to the bride, and said, ‘Bride, you must give me a s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Chanticleer ran to the bride, and said, ‘Bride, you must give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water, and the water I will carry to Partlet, who lies on the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.’ Who acts: Chanticleer, you, river, water. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/6/) [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/) / [3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/) / 6 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 6 Chanticleer ran to the bride, and said, ‘Bride, you must give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water, and the water I will carry to Partlet, who lies on the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.’ **Who acts:** Chanticleer, you, river, water, Partlet · **What happens:** run, say, give, carry, lie, choke · **To what, where:** Bride, silken cord, me, water, Partlet, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chanticleer, you, river, water), 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:pg2591:18:6 # text = Chanticleer ran to the bride, and said, ‘Bride, you must give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water, and the water I will carry to Partlet, who lies on the mountain, and will be choked by a great nut.’ 1 Chanticleer chanticleer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Partlet Partlet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 choked choke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | Chanticleer | | | | | to the bride *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bride=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Chanticleer *not said here* | Bride | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** | must | you | a silken cord | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cord=Theme | | 4 | **give** | future | the river | water | me | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient water=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | future | the water | | Partlet | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to partlet=Destination | | 6 | **lie** | present | Partlet | | | the mountain | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location | | 7 | **choke** | future · passive | Chanticleer *not said here* | | | | | by a great nut | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V» | 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/pg2591/18/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/7/) - ↑ back to [3. 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