Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 49

First top off, then half-done, then--’ ‘Will you hold your tongue,’ cried the cat, ‘one word more, and I will eat you too.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: top off, do, hold, cry, eat · To what, where: tongue, cat, you

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, I), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 top	advmod
2	top	top	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 top	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 done	advmod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 done	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 top	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 done	advmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
14	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hold	nsubj
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	advcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 word	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 word	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 word	nummod
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obl
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 word	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eat	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 eat	aux
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hold	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 eat	obj
35	too	too	ADV	_	33 eat	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 top	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 top	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	top off	imperative	you not said here			first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	do	participle	you not said here		then; then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	future	you	your tongue			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past		the cat		one word obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
5	eat	future	I	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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