Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 7
Let me go out today, and you look after the house by yourself.’
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, go out, look · To what, where: me
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, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 yourself | case |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | infinitive | me not said here | today | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | look | present | you | after the house | by yourself | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by yourself=Theme |
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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