Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 12
Away ran Catherine, and away ran the dog across the field: but he ran faster than she, and stuck close to the steak.
Who acts: dog · What happens: run, stick · To what, where: Catherine, dog, field
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 (dog), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obj |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 17 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 she | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 faster | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stuck | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stuck | cc |
| 22 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 23 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 stuck | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 steak | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 steak | det |
| 26 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stuck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Catherine | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catherine=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the dog | the field | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme across field=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | run | past | dog | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | past | to the steak; close property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to steak=Co-Patient |
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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