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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 8

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Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.

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**Who acts:** Chanticleer, garland, bride, water, river · **What happens:** run, take, hang, bring, give, carry · **To what, where:** garland, bough, bride, silken cord, water, river

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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, garland, bride, water), 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:pg2591:18:8
# text = Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Chanticleer	Chanticleer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Partlet	Partlet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	74	punct	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	obl	_	_
65	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
66	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux:pass	_	_
67	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	64	acl:relcl	_	_
68	by	by	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
74	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
75	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	76	advmod	_	_
76	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
78	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
79	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	80	advmod	_	_
80	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	74	advcl	_	_
81	any	any	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
82	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	80	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Chanticleer |  |  |  | then | to the garden *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to garden=Result |
| 2 | **take** | past | Chanticleer *not said here* | the garland |  | the bough |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent garland=Theme from bough=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hang** | past | garland |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | Chanticleer *not said here* | garland | the bride |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bride=Destination |
| 5 | **give** | past | the bride | the silken cord | water |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cord=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | past | water | the silken cord |  | the river |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cord=Theme to river=Destination |
| 7 | **give** | past | the river | water | water |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient water=Theme |
| 8 | **carry** | past | water | the water | Partlet |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to partlet=Destination |
| 9 | **choke** | past · passive |  | bride |  |  |  | by the great nut | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 10 | **lay** | present |  |  |  | the meantime |  | dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meantime=Destination |
| 11 | **not** **move** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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