Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 22
‘Oh, no,’ answered the cat, ‘he has only one.’
Who acts: wooer · What happens: answer, have · To what, where: cat, one
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 (wooer), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | present | wooer | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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