The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 20

‘Top Off,’ said the Cat drily.

Who acts: Top · What happens: say · To what, where: 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 (Top), 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	_	2 Top	punct
2	Top	Top	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	Off	off	ADV	_	2 Top	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Off	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Top	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	drily	drily	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Top	the Cat				drily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic

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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