The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 48
Only the mouse and the ermine remained where they were, for they thought that they were much too small to be noticed.
Who acts: mouse, mice · What happens: remain, be, notice · 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 (mouse, mice), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 mouse | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ermine | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ermine | det |
| 6 | ermine | ermine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouse | conj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 thought | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remained | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 small | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 small | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 small | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 noticed | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 noticed | aux:pass |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 small | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the mouse and the ermine | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be speech: other | past | mice = mouse | think property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mice = mouse | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | notice | to-infinitive · passive | mice = mouse not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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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