Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 2
‘But we must make a provision for winter, or else we shall suffer from hunger,’ said the cat; ‘and you, little mouse, cannot venture everywhere, or you will be caught in a trap some day.’
Who acts: we, you · What happens: make, suffer, say, not venture, catch · To what, where: provision, hunger, cat, you, trap · 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 (we, you), 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 make | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 provision | det |
| 7 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffer | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 suffer | cc |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 suffer | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffer | aux |
| 15 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hunger | case |
| 17 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 33 venture | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 venture | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 venture | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mouse | punct |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mouse | amod |
| 29 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 you | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mouse | punct |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 venture | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 venture | advmod |
| 33 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | parataxis |
| 34 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 venture | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 caught | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 caught | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 caught | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 caught | aux:pass |
| 40 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 venture | advcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 trap | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 trap | det |
| 43 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 caught | obl |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 day | det |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 venture | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | we | a provision | winter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Product | |||
| 2 | suffer | shall | we | hunger | else property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not venture | can | you | everywhere property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | catch | future · passive | you | a trap | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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