Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 5

We will set it beneath the altar, and not touch it until we are really in need of it.’

Who acts: We · What happens: set, not touch, be · To what, where: place, altar, need

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obj
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 touch	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 touch	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 touch	advmod
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touch	obj
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 need	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 need	cop
16	really	really	ADV	_	18 need	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 need	case
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touch	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 need	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	future	We	place	the altar		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme beneath altar=Destination
2	not touch	infinitive	We not said here	place			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	is	present	we		need	of place	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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