Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 20

Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second but the shepherd’s old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.

Who acts: Sultan, cat · What happens: have, ask, be, take, limp, stick up · To what, where: nobody, cat, poor thing, trouble, tail, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	aux
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	11 second	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 second	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 second	nmod:poss
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 ask	ccomp
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cat	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shepherd	det
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cat	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 shepherd	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cat	amod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 legged	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 three	punct
19	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cat	amod
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 second	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 took	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thing	cc
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 thing	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thing	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	parataxis
34	limped	limp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 thing	acl
35	along	along	ADP	_	38 trouble	case
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 trouble	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 trouble	det
38	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 limped	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stuck	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stuck	nsubj
41	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 stuck	compound:prt
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 tail	nmod:poss
44	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stuck	obj
45	straight	straight	ADV	_	48 air	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 air	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 air	det
48	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stuck	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Sultan	nobody			now		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	could	Sultan						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						second property	tree rules
4	take	past	Sultan		cat			with wolf	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
5	limp	participle		the poor thing not said here		some trouble			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along trouble=Trajectory
6	stick up	past	cat	cat's tail		the air			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in air=Destination

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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