Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 23
‘Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,’ said she, and was quite satisfied with her day’s work.
Who acts: Nothing, cat, day · What happens: seem, keep, say, be, work · 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 (Nothing, cat, day), 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 | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 seems | advmod |
| 4 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seems | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 keeps | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 oneself | case |
| 12 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 keeps | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seems | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 satisfied | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 satisfied | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 satisfied | advmod |
| 21 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 day | nmod:poss |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 work | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 day | case |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 satisfied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Nothing | ever | good property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | present | to oneself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | with cat's day's work; satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | work | cat's day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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