More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 11
Not to mention that, Mamma must needs sit up, and keep watch and ward over baby's cradle, or there'd have been a big ugly rat running across the poor little fellow's face, and doing who knows what mischief.
Who acts: you, Mamma, big ugly rat · What happens: not mention, need, sit up, keep, ward, have · To what, where: that, watch, cradle, big ugly rat, face
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mamma, big ugly rat), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 mention | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 1 Not | fixed |
| 3 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mention | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 needs | punct |
| 6 | Mamma | Mamma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 needs | aux |
| 8 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mention | parataxis |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 needs | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sit | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mention | parataxis |
| 14 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ward | cc |
| 16 | ward | ward | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 cradle | case |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 baby | case |
| 20 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ward | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 have | expl |
| 24 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 keep | conj |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 rat | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rat | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rat | amod |
| 29 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rat | amod |
| 30 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 31 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 rat | acl |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 face | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fellow | det |
| 34 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fellow | amod |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fellow | amod |
| 36 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 fellow | case |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 running | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 doing | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 doing | cc |
| 41 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 mention | parataxis |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 knows | nsubj |
| 43 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 doing | ccomp |
| 44 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 mischief | nsubj |
| 45 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 knows | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | imperative | you not said here | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need | must | Mamma | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit up not said to happen | infinitive | Mamma not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ward | infinitive | baby's cradle | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | would | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | participle | a big ugly rat | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | run | gerund | a big ugly rat not said here | the poor little fellow's face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across face=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | do | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 11 | mischief | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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