Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 1
It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself: ‘He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,’ she spoke to him in a friendly way.
Who acts: It, cat, fox · What happens: happen, meet, think, be, esteem, speak · To what, where: fox, forest, cat, world, friendly way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, cat, fox), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 met | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 thought | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 clever | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 clever | punct |
| 21 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 clever | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 clever | cop |
| 23 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clever | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 experience | case |
| 27 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 esteemed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 esteemed | cc |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 esteemed | advmod |
| 31 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 clever | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 esteemed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spoke | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 spoke | punct |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 spoke | nsubj |
| 38 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 clever | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 spoke | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 way | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 way | det |
| 43 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 way | amod |
| 44 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spoke | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the cat | the fox | a forest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | cat | cat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | fox | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | fox not said here | of experience | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | esteem | participle | fox not said here | the world | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | cat | fox | a friendly way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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