The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 68
You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if there is one thing that I fancy above all others, it is a plump, tender little mouse.
Who acts: You, I, one thing, reward · What happens: know, be, eat, fancy · To what, where: one thing, others, plump tender little mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, I, one thing, reward), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 particular | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 particular | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 particular | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 particular | advmod |
| 8 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | ccomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 particular | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mouse | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mouse | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 is | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 mouse | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thing | nummod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fancy | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fancy | nsubj |
| 22 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | above | above | ADP | _ | 25 others | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 others | det |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fancy | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 mouse | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 mouse | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mouse | det |
| 30 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mouse | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 plump | punct |
| 32 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mouse | amod |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mouse | amod |
| 34 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 particular | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | particular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fancy | present | I | one thing | all others | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is a | present | reward | a plump tender little 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 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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