Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 17
The cat goes up the stairs trip, trap, The door she knocks at tap, tap, tap, ‘Mistress Fox, are you inside?’
Who acts: cat, door, you · What happens: go up, knock, be · To what, where: stairs trip, Mistress Fox, tap
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, door, you), 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 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 goes | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 6 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trip | compound |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trap | punct |
| 9 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trip | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knocks | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocks | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knocks | nsubj |
| 14 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trip | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 tap | case |
| 16 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocks | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tap | punct |
| 18 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tap | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tap | punct |
| 20 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tap | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Fox | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Fox | punct |
| 23 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Fox | compound |
| 24 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knocks | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 inside | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 inside | cop |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 inside | nsubj |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | the cat | the stairs trip and trap | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient trip=Extent | ||||
| 2 | knock | present | the door | Mistress Fox | tap and tap and tap | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent trip=Theme at tap=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | you | inside property | tree rules |
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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