The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 44
Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.
Who acts: Ferko, little mouse, front paws · What happens: notice, creep, have, break · To what, where: little mouse, hind paws, both, trap
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, little mouse, front paws), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouse | amod |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | obj |
| 7 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mouse | acl |
| 8 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 7 creeping | advmod |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 creeping | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 paws | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paws | amod |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 creeping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paws | amod |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 broken | aux:pass |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 had | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trap | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trap | det |
| 25 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 broken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Ferko | a little mouse | here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | creep | gerund | a little mouse not said here | mouse's hind paws | along, wearily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have | past | mouse's front paws | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break | participle · passive | both | a trap | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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