Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 20

But one of the good qualities which old Mr Fox had possessed, was always lacking, and the cat had continually to send the suitors away.

Who acts: one, cat · What happens: possess, lack, have, send away · To what, where: old Mr Fox, suitors

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 (one, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 lacking	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 lacking	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 qualities	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 qualities	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 qualities	amod
6	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 possessed	obj
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fox	amod
9	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fox	compound
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possessed	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 possessed	aux
12	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 qualities	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lacking	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lacking	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 lacking	advmod
16	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lacking	conj
22	continually	continually	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 send	mark
24	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 suitors	det
26	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 send	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	24 send	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	possess	past · perfect · passive		old Mr Fox		tree rules
2	lack	past · progressive	one of the good qualities		always property	tree rules
3	have	past	the cat		continually property	tree rules
4	send away	to-infinitive	the cat not said here	the suitors	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme

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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