Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 13

The cat runs quickly up the stair, And lets her tail fly here and there, Until she comes to the parlour door.

Who acts: cat, tail · What happens: run, let, fly, come · To what, where: stair, parlour door

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second 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, tail), 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 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 runs	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 stair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stair	det
7	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lets	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 lets	cc
10	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 runs	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fly	nsubj
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lets	xcomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fly	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 there	cc
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 here	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
18	Until	until	SCONJ	_	20 comes	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 comes	nsubj
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lets	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
23	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	compound
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	present	the cat	the stair	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up stair=Trajectory
2	let	present				tree rules
3	fly	infinitive	Mrs's tail	here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	tail	the parlour door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location

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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