Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 37
The mouse at once asked what name had been given to the third child.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: ask, give · To what, where: name, third child
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), 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 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 asked | obl |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 child | amod |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | name | the third child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient |
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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