The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 75

I leave you to enjoy its company, and for my own part I thank my stars that I can get plenty of mice without troubling you to give them to me.’

Who acts: I, stars · What happens: leave, enjoy, thank, get, trouble, give · To what, where: you, company, stars, plenty

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, stars), 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	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 leave	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 enjoy	mark
5	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leave	advcl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 company	nmod:poss
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enjoy	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thank	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 part	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 part	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 part	amod
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 thank	nsubj
15	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stars	nmod:poss
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thank	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 get	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stars	acl:relcl
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mice	case
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plenty	nmod
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 troubling	mark
26	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 get	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 troubling	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 troubling	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	present	I	you			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	enjoy	to-infinitive	I not said here	mouse's company			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus
3	thank speech: thank	present	I	my stars		for my own part	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent star=Theme for part=Attribute
4	get	can	my stars	plenty of mice			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus
5	trouble	gerund	my stars not said here	you			tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	my stars not said here		stars = star	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient

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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