Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 10

All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.

Who acts: All, cat · What happens: be, have, not ask · To what, where: cousin, godmother

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 (All, cat), 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 untrue	nsubj
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 All	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 untrue	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 untrue	cop
7	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 untrue	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cousin	det
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 asked	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 asked	aux:pass
19	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 had	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 godmother	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 godmother	cop
22	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 untrue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	All		however, untrue property	tree rules
2	have	past	the cat	no cousin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient
3	not ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive	the cat not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
4	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cat not said here	godmother		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: «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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