Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 11
So up she ran from the cellar; and sure enough the rascally cur had got the steak in his mouth, and was making off with it.
Who acts: Catherine, rascally cur · What happens: run, get, make off · To what, where: cellar, steak, mouth
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, rascally cur), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ran | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cellar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cellar | det |
| 7 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sure | cc |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 sure | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cur | det |
| 13 | rascally | rascally | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cur | amod |
| 14 | cur | cur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 steak | det |
| 18 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steak | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 making | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 making | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 making | aux |
| 25 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | advcl |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 making | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 making | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Catherine | the cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cellar=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | the rascally cur | the steak | cur's mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steak=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make off | past · progressive | Catherine not said here | with steak | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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