Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 112
There runs a mouse; whoever catches her may make a great, great cap out of her fur.
Who acts: whoever, mouse · What happens: run, catch, make · To what, where: mouse, great great cap, fur
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, mouse), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 runs | expl |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 catches | punct |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 catches | nsubj |
| 7 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 catches | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cap | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cap | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cap | amod |
| 15 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 fur | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fur | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fur | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | a mouse | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | may | mouse | a great great cap | mouse's fur | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Product |
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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