Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 7

Now, mice, be ready, And, wheels, run steady!

Who acts: mice, wheels · What happens: be, run

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 (mice, wheels), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ready	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ready	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mice	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	cop
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wheels	punct
10	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wheels	punct
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ready	conj
13	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 run	xcomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	mice				now	ready property	tree rules
2	run	infinitive	wheels					steady property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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