Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 44
‘Yes,’ answered the cat, ‘you will enjoy it as much as you would enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of the window.’
Who acts: you · What happens: answer, enjoy, stick · To what, where: cat, head, dainty tongue, window · 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 (you), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enjoy | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 enjoy | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoy | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 enjoy | aux |
| 12 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoy | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 enjoy | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 enjoy | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 enjoy | aux |
| 19 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 much | acl |
| 20 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 enjoy | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tongue | det |
| 22 | dainty | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tongue | amod |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sticking | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 yours | case |
| 25 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tongue | nmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sticking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 enjoy | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | future | you | head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | would | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stick | gerund | you not said here | that dainty tongue of yours | the window | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme out window=Destination |
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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