Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 18

‘Oh, yes, my little cat,’ she cried.

Who acts: little cat · What happens: cry

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 (little 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 cat	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 cat	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cat	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cat	amod
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my little cat						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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