Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 136
My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.
Who acts: whosoever, My · What happens: do, run, catch, make, tell · To what, where: tale, mouse, cap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whosoever, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tale | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 runs | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 runs | expl |
| 7 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 catches | punct |
| 11 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 catches | nsubj |
| 12 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 catches | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 catches | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cap | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cap | amod |
| 20 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cap | compound |
| 21 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | My tale | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | present | a mouse | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | present | whosoever | mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | may | whosoever not said here | tale | cap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary cap=Product | |||
| 5 | tell | My | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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