Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 3
The good advice was followed, and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not know where to put it.
Who acts: love · What happens: follow, buy, not know, put · To what, where: good advice, pot · 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 (love), 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 advice | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 advice | amod |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | aux:pass |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bought | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fat | case |
| 11 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bought | aux:pass |
| 13 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 followed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 followed | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 put | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 put | mark |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | the good advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | past · passive | a pot of fat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | love | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | pot | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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