Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 30
‘All good things go in threes,’ said she, ‘I am asked to stand godmother again.
Who acts: good things, mouth, I · What happens: go, say, ask, stand · To what, where: threes, I, godmother · 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 (good things, mouth, I), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 threes | case |
| 7 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux:pass |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stand | mark |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | all good things | threes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in three=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mouth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | godmother | again | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus |
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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