--- title: So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived. Who acts: bone, Chanticleer, light, last. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Gri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/27/) [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/) / [The Travelling Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/) / 27 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 27 So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived. **Who acts:** bone, Chanticleer, light, last, gang · **What happens:** walk off, see, draw, become, come, live · **To what, where:** light, house This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bone, Chanticleer, light, last), 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:pg2591:5:27 # text = So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 towards towards ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 10 Chanticleer Chanticleer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nsubj _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 gang gang NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk off** | past | bone | | | | | towards the spot; off, together *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Chanticleer | the light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 3 | **draw** | past | bone | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | past | light | | | | | large *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come** | past | last | | | a house | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **live** | past | a gang of robbers | | | a house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/28/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/)