Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 7

Catherine, however, pursued the dog for a long way over the fields, but the beast was quicker than she, and would not let the sausage go, but bolted off at a great rate. "

Who acts: Catherine, beast, sausage · What happens: pursue, be, not let, go, bolt off · To what, where: dog, sausage, great rate

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, beast, sausage), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pursued	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Catherine	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 pursued	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursued	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pursued	obl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 way	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 quicker	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 quicker	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beast	det
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 quicker	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 quicker	cop
20	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pursued	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 she	case
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 quicker	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pursued	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sausage	det
29	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	obj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bolted	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 bolted	cc
33	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pursued	parataxis
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 bolted	compound:prt
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 rate	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rate	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rate	amod
38	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bolted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 bolted	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pursue	past	Catherine	the dog		for a long way over the fields; however property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	is	past	the beast			than Catherine; quick property	tree rules
3	not let	would	Catherine not said here	the sausage			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the sausage not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bolt off	participle			a great rate		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Trajectory

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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