The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 73
‘Do you care more for a miserable mouse than for your own baby?
Who acts: you · What happens: care
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), 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 | _ | 4 care | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 care | nsubj |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 care | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mouse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouse | amod |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 baby | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baby | amod |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present · do-support | you | for a miserable mouse; than your own baby | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for mouse=Theme |
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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