Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 14
The cat was pleased with the thought, and joined the party.
Who acts: cat · What happens: be, join · To what, where: party
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 joined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 joined | cc |
| 10 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 party | det |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joined | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cat | with the thought; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | join | past | the cat not said here | the party | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=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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