The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 24
‘It is not worse than Breadthief, as your godchild is called.’
Who acts: counsel · What happens: not be, call · To what, where: godchild · 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 (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 | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 worse | advmod |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 Breadthief | case |
| 7 | Breadthief | Breadthief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worse | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 godchild | nmod:poss |
| 11 | godchild | godchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worse | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | counsel | than Breadthief; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | your godchild | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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