Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 2
Soon afterwards a cat met them, and said, ‘Where are you going?’
Who acts: cat, you · What happens: meet, say, go · To what, where: mice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 going | advmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a cat | mice = mouse | afterwards, soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a cat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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