Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 12
‘When the hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.’
Who acts: hounds, I · What happens: follow, spring, save · To what, where: me, tree, myself
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 (hounds, I), 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 | _ | 6 following | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 following | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hounds | det |
| 4 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 following | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 following | aux |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spring | csubj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 following | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 following | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 spring | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 spring | aux |
| 11 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spring | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 save | cc |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spring | conj |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 save | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spring | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · progressive | the hounds | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring | can | I | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
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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