The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 198
The mouse with the cropped ears found a lamp full of oil and a bottle full of pepper.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: crop, find · To what, where: lamp
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ears | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ears | det |
| 5 | cropped | crop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ears | amod |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mouse | nmod |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lamp | det |
| 9 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lamp | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oil | case |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bottle | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bottle | det |
| 15 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oil | conj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bottle | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pepper | case |
| 18 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crop | participle | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | find | past | the mouse with the cropped ears | a lamp | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Topic |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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