Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 42
All-gone; what can that mean?’ and she shook her head, curled herself up, and lay down to sleep.
Who acts: All, that, mouse · What happens: go, mean, shake, curl up, lay down, sleep · To what, where: head, mouse · 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 (All, that, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 mean | csubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mean | obj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shook | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shook | nsubj |
| 13 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shook | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 curled | punct |
| 17 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shook | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 curled | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 curled | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mean | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lay | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | All | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | can | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | mouse | mouse's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | curl up | participle | mouse not said here | mouse | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lay down | infinitive | that not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | that not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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