The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 119
‘But is not that a mouse that I see in thine hand?’ asked the bishop.
Who acts: I, mouse · What happens: not be, see, ask · To what, where: mouse, hand, bishop
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mouse), 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 | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 mouse | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mouse | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mouse | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 mouse | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 see | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bishop | det |
| 18 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a mouse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | a mouse | thine hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a mouse | the bishop | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bishop=Recipient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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