Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 31

The child is quite black, only it has white paws, but with that exception, it has not a single white hair on its whole body; this only happens once every few years, you will let me go, won’t you?’

Who acts: child, this, you, me · What happens: be, have, happen, let, go · To what, where: white paws, single white hair, whole body, me

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 (child, this, you, me), 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	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 black	advmod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 has	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 paws	amod
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 has	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 has	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 exception	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 exception	det
16	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 exception	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hair	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hair	det
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hair	amod
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 body	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 body	nmod:poss
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 body	amod
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hair	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 happens	punct
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 happens	nsubj
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 happens	advmod
32	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 happens	advmod
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 years	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 years	amod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 happens	obl:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 let	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 let	aux
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 black	parataxis
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct
44	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
45	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 you	advmod
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 wo	obl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child				black property	tree rules
2	have	present	child	white paws				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
3	have	present	child	a single white hair	child's whole body		with that exception	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	happen	present	this			year	once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	future	you	me				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	me not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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