Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 15
Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
Who acts: ale, Catherine, jug, liquor, cask · What happens: run, not turn, be · To what, where: cock, floor
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 (ale, Catherine, jug, liquor), 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 | 8 running | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 time | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ale | det |
| 6 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 running | aux |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 running | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 12 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 turned | advmod |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 running | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cock | det |
| 17 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ran | cc |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 full | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 jug | det |
| 22 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ran | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 liquor | det |
| 26 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | conj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 floor | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 floor | det |
| 30 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | obl |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 empty | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cask | det |
| 33 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 empty | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 empty | cop |
| 35 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ran | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | the ale | now; time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not turn | past · perfect | Catherine | the cock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the jug | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the liquor | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the cask | empty property | tree rules |
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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