The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 69
Each mouse climbed up a straw till it bent down with its weight, and then it bit off one of the ears, and carried it away, and there was not one of the straws that had not got a mouse to it.
Who acts: mouse, straw · What happens: climb up, bend down, bite off, carry away, not be, not get · To what, where: straw, one, straws
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 (mouse, straw), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 straw | det |
| 6 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 bent | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bent | nsubj |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 bent | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 weight | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bit | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bit | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 bit | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bit | nsubj |
| 18 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bit | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ears | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ears | det |
| 23 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 carried | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 was | cc |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 one | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 one | advmod |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 carried | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 straws | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 straws | det |
| 37 | straws | straw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 got | obl |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 got | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 got | advmod |
| 41 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 straws | acl:relcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 mouse | det |
| 43 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 got | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 got | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | each mouse | a straw | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location straw=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend down | past | straw | with straw's weight; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bite off | past | straw | one of the ears | then | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 4 | carry away | past | straw | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is a | past | one | of the straws | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not get | past · perfect | the straws | straw | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
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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