The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 104
“Don’t cry,” answered the cat, laying her paw on her mistress’s arm.
Who acts: you, cat · What happens: not cry, answer, lay · To what, where: paw, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cry | advmod |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laying | punct |
| 11 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cry | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laying | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 arm | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 mistress | case |
| 18 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | gerund | you not said here | Cat's paw | Cat's mistress's arm | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on arm=Destination |
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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