The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 2
‘But we must provide for the winter or else we shall suffer hunger,’ said the Cat.
Who acts: we · What happens: provide, suffer, say · To what, where: hunger, Cat · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 provide | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 provide | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 provide | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 provide | aux |
| 5 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 winter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winter | det |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provide | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffer | cc |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 suffer | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suffer | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 provide | conj |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 provide | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cat | det |
| 19 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | must | we | winter | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | suffer | shall | we | hunger | else property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | 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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