Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 33

You may have her, and you will find that she is a good mouser too."

Who acts: You, girl · What happens: have, find, be · To what, where: girl, good mouser · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, girl), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 mouser	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mouser	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mouser	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mouser	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mouser	amod
15	mouser	mouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	ccomp
16	too	too	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	may	You	girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	find	future	you		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	girl	a good mouser	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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