Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 22
The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
Who acts: good mouse · What happens: consent, creep, devour · To what, where: good mouse, town walls, pot
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 (good mouse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouse | amod |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mouse | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 crept | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walls | compound |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crept | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 devoured | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 devoured | cc |
| 19 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 pot | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 devoured | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fat | case |
| 24 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the good mouse not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | creep | past | the good mouse | the town walls | to the church | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to church=Destination | |||
| 3 | devour | past | the good mouse not said here | half pot of fat | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
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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