The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 119
‘Squeak, squeak!’ said a little mouse, stealing out, followed by a second.
Who acts: Squeak · What happens: say, steal out, follow · To what, where: little mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squeak), 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 | _ | 2 Squeak | punct |
| 2 | Squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 squeak | punct |
| 4 | squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Squeak | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Squeak | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Squeak | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mouse | amod |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stealing | punct |
| 12 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 stealing | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stealing | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 second | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Squeak and squeak | a little mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | ||||
| 2 | steal out | gerund | Squeak and squeak not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | participle | Squeak and squeak not said here | second | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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