Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 35

During the cat’s absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.

Who acts: mouse, greedy cat, cat · What happens: clean, put, empty, absent · To what, where: house, order, pot

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 (mouse, greedy cat, cat), 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	During	during	ADP	_	5 absence	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 absence	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 cat	case
5	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	nsubj
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cleaned	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 order	case
16	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 emptied	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 emptied	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
20	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cat	amod
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 emptied	nsubj
22	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	23 emptied	advmod
23	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cleaned	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pot	det
25	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 emptied	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fat	case
27	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pot	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	the mouse	the house		during the cat's absence		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
2	put	infinitive	the mouse not said here	house	order			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Destination
3	empty	past	the greedy cat	the pot of fat			entirely property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source
4	absent		the cat					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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