Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 18

‘Open your sack, Mr Fox, open your sack,’ cried the cat to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and were holding him fast.

What happens: open, cry, seize, hold · To what, where: sack, cat, fox, dogs

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: 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	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	parataxis
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sack	nmod:poss
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Fox	punct
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fox	compound
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sack	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct
9	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Open	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sack	nmod:poss
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seized	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 seized	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dogs	det
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seized	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seized	aux
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 seized	advmod
25	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cried	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seized	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 holding	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 holding	cc
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 holding	aux
30	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cried	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 holding	obj
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 holding	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	infinitive	your sack and Mr Fox			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme
2	open	infinitive	your sack			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the cat	fox		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Topic to he=Recipient
4	seize	past · perfect · passive	the dogs			tree rules
5	hold	past · progressive	fox		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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