Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 38
‘It will not please you more than the others,’ said the cat.
Who acts: name · What happens: not please, say · To what, where: more, cat · 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 (name), 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 | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 please | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 please | advmod |
| 5 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 more | nsubj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 please | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 others | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 more | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not please | future | name | more | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | tree rules |
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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