The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 132

I am a very old friend of yours, and I am truly glad to find you at last; but you might look nicer than you do in that old gown, which is only fit for a kitchen-maid.

Who acts: I, you, old gown · What happens: be, find, look, do · To what, where: old friend, you, last, old gown

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, old gown), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 friend	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friend	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 yours	case
8	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glad	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 glad	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	cop
13	truly	truly	ADV	_	14 glad	advmod
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 glad	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 find	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 friend	parataxis
25	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 look	xcomp
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nicer	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 gown	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 gown	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gown	amod
32	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fit	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 fit	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fit	cop
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 fit	advmod
37	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gown	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	42 maid	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 maid	det
40	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 maid	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 kitchen	punct
42	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fit	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 friend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	yours's old friend			tree rules
2	is	present	I			glad, truly property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at last=Asset
4	look	might	you			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	do	present	you		that old gown		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	that old gown			for a kitchen maid; fit property	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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