Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 8
They had not gone far before they saw a cat sitting in the middle of the road and making a most rueful face.
Who acts: roadside, cat · What happens: not go, see, sit, make · To what, where: cat, middle, rueful face
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 (roadside, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cat | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 making | cc |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 sitting | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 rueful | advmod |
| 22 | rueful | rueful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | roadside | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | roadside | a cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a cat not said here | the middle of the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | a cat not said here | a rueful face | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |
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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