Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 10
‘I understand but one,’ replied the cat, modestly.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: understand, reply · To what, where: cat
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 (I, one), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understand | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 modestly | punct |
| 12 | modestly | modestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cat | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | one | the cat | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
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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