Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 4

At length, after much consideration, the cat said: ‘I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there.

Who acts: cat, I, place, one · What happens: say, know, be, store up, dare, take away · To what, where: length, place, anything · 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 (cat, I, place, one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 consideration	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 consideration	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consideration	amod
6	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 better	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 better	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 better	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 better	cop
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 place	acl:relcl
22	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 better	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 stored	compound:prt
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 church	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 church	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 church	det
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stored	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dares	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 dares	mark
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dares	nsubj
32	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 take	advcl
33	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	ccomp
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 take	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 take	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 there	case
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 take	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cat		length and much consideration		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	I	no place			tree rules
3	is	future	place			good property	tree rules
4	store up	participle	place not said here			than the church	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	dare	present	no one				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	take away	present		anything		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from there=Initial_Location

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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