Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 9
All this while the beer was running out of the cask, for Catherine had forgotten to turn the tap off, and so, as soon as the can was full, the liquor ran over the floor of the cellar until it was all out.
Who acts: beer, Catherine, liquor · What happens: run, forget, turn off, be · To what, where: cask, tap, floor
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 (beer, Catherine, liquor), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 running | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 All | obj |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 running | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beer | det |
| 5 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 running | aux |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgotten | mark |
| 14 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 forgotten | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 running | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 turn | mark |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgotten | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tap | det |
| 20 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 turn | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 so | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 so | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 forgotten | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soon | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 soon | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 so | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 full | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 full | det |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 full | aux |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 full | cop |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 soon | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 liquor | det |
| 35 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 so | conj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 floor | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 floor | det |
| 39 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 cellar | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cellar | det |
| 42 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 floor | nmod |
| 43 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 47 out | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 out | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 out | cop |
| 46 | all | all | ADV | _ | 47 out | advmod |
| 47 | out | out | ADV | _ | 36 ran | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | the beer | the cask | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cask=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | Catherine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn off | to-infinitive | Catherine not said here | the tap | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tap=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | can | Catherine not said here | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the liquor | the floor of the cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is | past | beer | all, out property | tree rules |
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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