The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 70
‘I only trust that we may escape cats and traps, and reach the Golden Branch soon,’ said the fat Mouse.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: trust, escape, reach, say · To what, where: cats, Golden Branch, fat Mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 trust | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 trust | advmod |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | aux |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trust | ccomp |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 escape | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 traps | cc |
| 11 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cats | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reach | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reach | cc |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 escape | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Branch | det |
| 16 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Branch | amod |
| 17 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 reach | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mouse | det |
| 23 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Mouse | amod |
| 24 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | escape | may | we | cats and traps | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | infinitive | we not said here | the Golden Branch | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the fat 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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