The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 10
Let me go out to-day, and do you take care of the house alone.’
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, go out, take · To what, where: me, care
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 (you, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | infinitive | me not said here | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | take | present · do-support | you | care | of the house; alone property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of house=Initial_Location |
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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