Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 6

At last the mouse said, "At any rate, let me have the first nibble!"

Who acts: mouse · What happens: say, let, have · To what, where: last, mouse, rate, first nibble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
8	At	at	ADP	_	10 rate	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 rate	det
10	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rate	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nibble	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 nibble	amod
17	nibble	nibble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the mouse		last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		the mouse = mouse	any rate	tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	the mouse = mouse not said here	the first nibble		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nibble=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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