The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 4

“I don’t care about playing catch, it does not amuse me,” answered the cat, who was as cross as ever; for no cat, even to this day, ever forgets an injury done to him.

Who acts: cat, catch, day · What happens: not care, play, not amuse, answer, be, forget · To what, where: catch, cat, injury · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, catch, day), 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 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	ccomp
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 playing	mark
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 care	advcl
8	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 amuse	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 amuse	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 amuse	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 amuse	advmod
13	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 care	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 amuse	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cross	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 cross	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cross	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
24	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cat	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 ever	case
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 cross	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cat	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 cat	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 cat	det
30	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	35 day	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forgets	punct
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 forgets	advmod
38	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 day	acl:relcl
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 injury	det
40	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forgets	obj
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 injury	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not care in a quote	present · do-support	the cat = cat					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	play in a quote	gerund	the cat = cat not said here	catch				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Theme
3	not amuse in a quote	present · do-support	catch	the cat = cat				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	the cat			day		tree rules
5	is	past	the cat				cross property	tree rules
6	forget	present	this day not said here	a injury		ever		tree rules
7	do	participle		a injury not said here	cat			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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