Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 8
‘Yes, yes,’ answered the mouse, ‘by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
Who acts: you · What happens: answer, mean, go, get, eat, think · To what, where: mouse, anything · 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 answered | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 means | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 means | obl |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 means | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 good | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | advcl |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 good | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 good | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 eat | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 think | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the mouse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | by all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | you | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | think speech: other | infinitive | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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