The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 13
The Cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: have, not ask, be · To what, where: cousin, godmother
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 cousin | det |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 asked | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | aux:pass |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 godmother | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 godmother | cop |
| 14 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Cat | no cousin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | past · perfect · passive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | godmother | tree rules |
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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