The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 26

She said to the Mouse, ‘You must again be kind enough to look after the house alone, for I have been asked a second time to stand godmother, and as this child has a white ring round its neck, I cannot refuse.’

Who acts: longing, You, child, I · What happens: say, be, look, ask, stand, have · To what, where: Mouse, I, godmother, white ring · 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 (longing, You, child, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Mouse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
5	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kind	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kind	aux
10	again	again	ADV	_	12 kind	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 kind	cop
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 kind	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kind	xcomp
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 look	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asked	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 asked	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 asked	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 asked	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 asked	aux:pass
25	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	obl:unmarked
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stand	mark
30	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
31	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stand	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 refuse	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 refuse	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 has	mark
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 child	det
36	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 has	nsubj
37	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 refuse	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 ring	det
39	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ring	amod
40	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 has	obj
41	round	round	ADP	_	43 neck	case
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 neck	nmod:poss
43	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ring	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 has	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 refuse	nsubj
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 refuse	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 refuse	advmod
48	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 asked	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	longing		the Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
2	is	must	You			again	enough, kind property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	You not said here			after the house	alone property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	present · perfect · passive		I		time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	stand	to-infinitive		godmother				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus
6	have	present	this child	a white ring			round child's neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
7	not refuse	can	I					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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