Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 31

I had no confidence in either of them, least of all in the owl, which is like a cat, and has a great failing, for she eats mice.

Who acts: I, owl, cat · What happens: have, be, eat · To what, where: confidence, either, great failing, mice

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 (I, owl, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 confidence	det
4	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 either	case
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	2 had	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 either	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 least	punct
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 had	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 least	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 owl	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 owl	det
15	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cat	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cat	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cat	cop
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 cat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 owl	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 failing	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 failing	amod
27	failing	failing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eats	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 eats	case
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eats	nsubj
31	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 has	conj
32	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 eats	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	no confidence	either	in the owl and a cat; least obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
2	is	present	the owl and a cat			like a cat	tree rules
3	have	present		a great failing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failing=Patient
4	eat	present	cat	mice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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: «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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