The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 1
A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and to go shares in the housekeeping.
Who acts: cat, Mouse · What happens: make, speak, feel, consent, live, go · To what, where: cat, much, great love, same house, shares, housekeeping · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Mouse), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mouse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mouse | det |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acquaintance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoken | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoken | aux |
| 12 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 made | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spoken | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 love | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 friendship | cc |
| 20 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 love | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 love | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 last | nsubj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mouse | det |
| 30 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 consented | nsubj |
| 31 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 last | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 live | mark |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 consented | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 house | amod |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 live | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 live | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 go | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 go | cc |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 go | mark |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 44 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 go | obj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 housekeeping | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 housekeeping | det |
| 47 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | a cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | much of the great love and friendship | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | cat | the great love and friendship not said here | for mouse | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent love=Location for she=Theme | |||
| 4 | consent | past | the Mouse | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the Mouse not said here | the same house | with mouse | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | shares | the housekeeping | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location share=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 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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