Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 26

For many a fine fat mouse he brought, Yet of his wife he never thought, But ate up every one he caught.’

Who acts: mouse, many · What happens: bring, not think, eat up, catch · To what, where: fine fat mouse, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mouse, many), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 many	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouse	amod
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	compound
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 many	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mouse	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
10	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 thought	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 thought	advmod
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 ate	compound:prt
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caught	nsubj
24	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	mouse	a fine fat mouse not said here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination
2	not think speech: other	past	many		of mouse's wife	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	eat up	past		every one		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	catch	past	mouse	every one not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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