Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 24
When she went home the mouse inquired: ‘And what was the child christened?’
Who acts: cat, mouse · What happens: go, inquire, be, christen · To what, where: child
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 (cat, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | nsubj |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 child | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 child | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 child | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 child | acl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 christened | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cat | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the child | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | christen | participle | the child not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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