Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 8
The captain wondered at this, and asked if it was not very un-pleas-ant to have so many rats and mice about.
Who acts: captain, it · What happens: wonder, ask, not be, have · To what, where: this, many rats
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wondered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | parataxis |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 un-pleas-ant | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 un-pleas-ant | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 un-pleas-ant | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 un-pleas-ant | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 un-pleas-ant | advmod |
| 14 | un-pleas-ant | un-pleas-ant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 un-pleas-ant | csubj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rats | amod |
| 19 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mice | cc |
| 21 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rats | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the captain | this | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | it | un-pleas-ant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | many rats and mice | about property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient |
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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