The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 28

‘Nothing tastes better,’ said she, ‘than what one eats by oneself,’ and she was very much pleased with her day’s work.

Who acts: Nothing, cat, one, day · What happens: taste, say, eat, be, work · 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 (Nothing, cat, one, day), 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	_	3 tastes	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tastes	nsubj
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tastes	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tastes	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tastes	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eats	nsubj
14	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 oneself	case
16	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 eats	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pleased	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 pleased	advmod
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 what	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 work	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 day	nmod:poss
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 work	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 day	case
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pleased	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Nothing	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	present	one	by oneself	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	cat	with cat's day's work; pleased property	tree rules
5	work		cat's day		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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