Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 18
‘What does that matter,’ said the cat, ‘it is no worse than Crumb-stealer, as your godchildren are called.’
Who acts: matter · What happens: do, say, not be, call · To what, where: matter, cat, godchildren · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (matter), 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 does | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 worse | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 worse | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 worse | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 worse | cop |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 worse | advmod |
| 16 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 stealer | case |
| 18 | Crumb | Crumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 stealer | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Crumb | punct |
| 20 | stealer | stealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 worse | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 called | mark |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 godchildren | nmod:poss |
| 24 | godchildren | godchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 called | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 called | aux:pass |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 worse | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | that matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | matter | than Crumb stealer; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | your godchildren | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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