The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 123

'Dear me,' said the cat, opening her eyes for the first time, 'that looks to me very like a rat city down there, let us go down to it; they may be able to help us.'

Who acts: that, us, eyes · What happens: say, open, look, let, go down, be · To what, where: cat, eyes, me, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, us, eyes), 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opening	punct
10	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 opening	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opening	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 looks	nsubj
20	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 looks	obl
23	very	very	ADV	_	20 looks	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 city	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 city	det
26	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 city	compound
27	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looks	obl
28	down	down	ADV	_	29 there	advmod
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 looks	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 looks	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 able	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 able	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 able	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	cop
41	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 help	mark
43	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 able	xcomp
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 help	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	open	gerund		sun's eyes			time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
3	look	present	that		me	there		like a rat city	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
4	let	infinitive	that not said here	us					tree rules
5	go down	infinitive	us not said here		cat			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is	may	eyes = eye					able property	tree rules
7	help	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here		us				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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