The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 11
‘Yes, go certainly,’ replied the Mouse, ‘and when you eat anything good, think of me; I should very much like a drop of the red christening wine.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, reply, eat, think · To what, where: Mouse, anything
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), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mouse | det |
| 10 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mouse | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 think | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | advcl |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 anything | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 drop | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 drop | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 drop | aux |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 drop | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 drop | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 drop | det |
| 30 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wine | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wine | det |
| 33 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wine | amod |
| 34 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wine | compound |
| 35 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drop | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | like a drop of the red christening wine; certainly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Mouse and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | you | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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