Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 14

‘All went off well,’ answered the cat.

What happens: go off, answer · To what, where: cat

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past						well property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the cat				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality

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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