The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 22

'No, I got it, and I will keep it,' answered the cat, who was tired and cross; and they began a fine quarrel.

Who acts: I, cat, orders · What happens: get, keep, answer, be, begin · To what, where: burden, cat, fine quarrel

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cat, orders), 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	_	5 got	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 got	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keep	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	aux
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 tired	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cat	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cross	cc
23	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tired	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 quarrel	det
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 quarrel	amod
30	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	I	burden			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	keep	future	I	burden			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			the cat		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
4	is	past	the cat			tired property	tree rules
5	be		the cat not said here				tree rules
6	begin	past	orders = order	a fine quarrel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Eventuality

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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