Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 45

They set out on their way, but when they arrived, the pot of fat certainly was still in its place, but it was empty.

Who acts: godchildren, fat · What happens: set out, arrive, be · To what, where: way, pot, place

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 (godchildren, fat), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 arrived	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 arrived	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 arrived	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 arrived	nsubj
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pot	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrived	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fat	case
16	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pot	nmod
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	22 place	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 place	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	22 place	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 place	nmod:poss
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fat	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 empty	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 empty	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 empty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 empty	cop
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arrived	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	godchildren = godchild		godchildren's way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	godchildren = godchild	the pot of fat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			fat's place	still	certainly property	tree rules
4	is	past	fat				empty property	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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