Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 11

She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.

Who acts: cat · What happens: go, begin, lick, lick off · To what, where: church, fat, top

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 church	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stole	punct
8	stole	stole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stole	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 fat	case
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pot	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lick	mark
17	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lick	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 licked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 licked	cc
22	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 licked	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 fat	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fat	det
27	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 top	nmod
28	off	off	ADP	_	22 licked	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	cat		the church and stole to the pot of fat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	cat not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lick	to-infinitive	cat not said here		fat	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Source
4	lick off	past	cat not said here	the top of the fat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source

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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