Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 1
A certain cat had made the acquaintance of a mouse, and had said so much to her about the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at length the mouse agreed that they should live and keep house together.
Who acts: cat, mouse, love · What happens: make, say, feel, agree, live, keep · To what, where: certain cat, much, cat, friendship, length, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, mouse, love), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 acquaintance | det |
| 7 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mouse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acquaintance | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 much | nmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 love | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | amod |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 much | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 friendship | cc |
| 24 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | conj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 friendship | acl:relcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 length | punct |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 length | det |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 length | case |
| 32 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mouse | det |
| 34 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 agreed | nsubj |
| 35 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 length | acl:relcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 live | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 live | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 live | aux |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 agreed | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 keep | cc |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 live | conj |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keep | obj |
| 43 | together | together | ADV | _ | 41 keep | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | a certain cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary acquaintance=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | much | cat | about the great love and friendship and that length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | cat | friendship not said here | for mouse | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent friendship=Location for she=Theme | |||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | the mouse | that length not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent length=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | live not said to happen | should | love | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | keep | infinitive | love not said here | house | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 7 | acquaint | a mouse | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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