The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 21
‘Topoff!’ echoed the Mouse, ‘it is indeed a wonderful and curious name.
Who acts: Topoff, counsel · What happens: echo, be · To what, where: Mouse, wonderful name
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 (Topoff, counsel), 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 Topoff | punct |
| 2 | Topoff | Topoff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 echoed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Topoff | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Topoff | punct |
| 5 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 echoed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 name | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 name | cop |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 name | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 name | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 curious | cc |
| 16 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wonderful | conj |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 echoed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | echo | past | Topoff | the Mouse | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | counsel | a wonderful name | indeed property | 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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