Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 12
Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out for opportunities, and then stretched herself in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the pot of fat, and not until it was evening did she return home.
Who acts: cat, fat · What happens: take, look out, stretch, lick, think, not be · To what, where: walk, cat, lips
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, fat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 walk | det |
| 5 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 roofs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roofs | det |
| 8 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walk | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roofs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 looked | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 opportunities | case |
| 16 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stretched | advmod |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 stretched | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sun | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 licked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 licked | cc |
| 27 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lips | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 licked | obj |
| 30 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 thought | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 licked | advcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pot | det |
| 35 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thought | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 fat | case |
| 37 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pot | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 return | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 return | cc |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 evening | advmod |
| 41 | until | until | ADP | _ | 44 evening | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 evening | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 evening | cop |
| 44 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 return | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 return | aux |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 return | nsubj |
| 47 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 48 | home | home | ADV | _ | 47 return | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | cat | a walk | then | upon the roofs of the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||
| 2 | look out | past | cat not said here | for opportunities | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | cat not said here | cat | then | in the sun | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in sun=Topic | ||
| 4 | lick | past | cat not said here | cat's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | cat | of the pot of fat; whenever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | fat | until evening | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | return | past · do-support | cat | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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