Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 34
‘You sit at home,’ said the cat, ‘in your dark-grey fur coat and long tail, and are filled with fancies, that’s because you do not go out in the daytime.’
Who acts: You · What happens: sit, say, fill, not go out · To what, where: home, cat, daytime · 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 (You), 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 | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coat | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 19 coat | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 coat | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coat | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dark | punct |
| 17 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coat | amod |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coat | compound |
| 19 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tail | cc |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tail | amod |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coat | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 filled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 filled | cc |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 filled | aux:pass |
| 26 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sit | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fancies | case |
| 28 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 filled | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ’s | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 ’s | nsubj |
| 31 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 go | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 go | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 go | advmod |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ’s | ccomp |
| 37 | out | out | ADV | _ | 36 go | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 daytime | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 daytime | det |
| 40 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 go | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | You | home | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | You not said here | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fill | present · passive | You not said here | with fancies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with fancy=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | not go out | present · do-support | you | the daytime | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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