Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 17
The cat sprang nimbly up a tree, and sat down at the top of it, where the branches and foliage quite concealed her.
Who acts: cat, branches · What happens: spring, sit down, conceal · To what, where: tree, top, 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 (cat, branches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 concealed | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 concealed | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 concealed | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 foliage | cc |
| 22 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branches | conj |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 concealed | advmod |
| 24 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 concealed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the cat | a tree | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | the top of top | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location | |||||
| 3 | conceal | past | the branches and foliage | cat | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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