Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 27
"'You poor little mouse,' said she, one day as she peeped into my cage, 'I will set you free.'
Who acts: You, poor little mouse, guest, jailer · What happens: mouse, say, peep, set · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, poor little mouse, guest, jailer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 3 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 mouse | nsubj |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 peeped | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 peeped | nsubj |
| 16 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 cage | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peeped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 peeped | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 set | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mouse in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | poor little mouse | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | peep in a quote | past | guest | into my cage | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into cage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | future | jailer | you | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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