Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 33

Half-done!’ answered the mouse, ‘they are such odd names, they make me very thoughtful.’

Who acts: things · What happens: do, answer, be, make · To what, where: mouse, such odd names, 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 (things), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 done	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 answered	advcl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 names	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 names	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 names	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 names	cop
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 names	amod
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 names	amod
15	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 thoughtful	advmod
21	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past			the mouse		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality
3	is a	present	things = thing	such odd names			tree rules
4	make	present	things = thing	me		thoughtful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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