Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 17

‘Top off!’ cried the mouse, ‘that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?’

Who acts: ‘, name · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: mouse, odd name, usual one, family

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 (‘, name), 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	_	2 Top	punct
2	Top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	parataxis
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 Top	compound:prt
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Top	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Top	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ‘	punct
10	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 name	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 name	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 name	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 odd	advmod
15	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 name	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 uncommon	cc
17	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 odd	conj
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ‘	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nsubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 family	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 family	nmod:poss
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the mouse and ‘		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic
2	is a	present	‘	a odd name		tree rules
3	is a	present	name	a usual one	your family	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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