Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 3
Mrs Fox went up to her room, shut herself in, and her maid, Miss Cat, sat by the fire, and did the cooking.
Who acts: Mrs Fox, maid · What happens: go up, shut in, sit, do · To what, where: wife, cooking
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 (Mrs Fox, maid), 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 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shut | punct |
| 9 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 shut | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shut | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maid | nmod:poss |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cat | punct |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cat | compound |
| 18 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maid | punct |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sat | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cooking | det |
| 28 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Mrs Fox | to wife's room | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | shut in | infinitive | wife | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | wife's maid and Miss Cat | by the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | past | wife's maid and Miss Cat not said here | the cooking | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality |
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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