Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 3

‘Good day, Mrs Cat of Kehrewit, How comes it that alone you sit?

Who acts: you · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: servant

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 (you), 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	_	3 day	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cat	punct
5	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cat	compound
6	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Kehrewit	case
8	Kehrewit	Kehrewit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cat	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 comes	advmod
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sit	mark
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 sit	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 sit	nsubj
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 comes	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		servant			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	sit	present	you					alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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