The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 133
See! there runs a little mouse; anyone who catches it may make himself a large fur cap out of it.
Who acts: you, anyone · What happens: see, run, catch, make · To what, where: little mouse, mouse, story
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, anyone), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 runs | expl |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mouse | amod |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 make | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 catches | nsubj |
| 11 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catches | obj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cap | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cap | amod |
| 18 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cap | compound |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cap | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | run | present | you not said here | a little mouse | there | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Agent | |||
| 3 | catch | present | mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | may | anyone | story | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |
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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