The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 208
“No, indeed,” cried the mouse with the cropped ears; “the credit is mine.
Who acts: mouse, credit · What happens: cry, crop, be · To what, where: mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
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, credit), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ears | det |
| 12 | cropped | crop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ears | amod |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mouse | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 mine | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mine | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 credit | det |
| 17 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mine | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mine | cop |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the mouse | indeed property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | crop | participle | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the credit | the mouse = mouse | tree rules |
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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