Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 203
After a time there was another feast, and Cat-skin asked the cook to let her go up and see it as before.
Who acts: Cat skin, truth · What happens: be, ask, let, go up, see · To what, where: feast, cook, truth, SKIN · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat skin, truth), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feast | cop |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 10 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cat | punct |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feast | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cook | det |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 before | advmod |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | another feast | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Cat skin | the cook | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | truth | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go up | infinitive | truth not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | truth not said here | SKIN | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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