The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 111
However, the mouse was used to it and only answered: “I think you had better stay here till it is done, and if there is any alteration needed I can make it.”
Who acts: I, you, alteration · What happens: use, answer, think, have, stay, do · To what, where: mouse, manner, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, alteration), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | ccomp |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 had | xcomp |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stay | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 make | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 make | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | cop |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 alteration | det |
| 31 | alteration | alteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | nsubj |
| 32 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 alteration | acl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 needed | obj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | aux |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 think | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 make | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the mouse | manner | however property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present · passive | manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | need in a quote | participle | any alteration not said here | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | can · present | any alteration | make property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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