The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 12
At which they laughed very much, and asked him if he was afraid of being eaten up by mice in the palace.
Who acts: brothers, prince, mice · What happens: laugh, ask, be, eat up · To what, where: prince, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, prince, mice), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 laughed | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 afraid | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eaten | aux:pass |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 afraid | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 eaten | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 mice | case |
| 20 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eaten | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | brothers = brother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | brothers = brother not said here | prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | prince | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat up | gerund · passive | mice | the palace | vn eat-39.1-1 «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 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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