The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 29
When she came home the Mouse asked, ‘What was this child called?’
Who acts: cat, Mouse · What happens: come, ask, be, call · To what, where: child · 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 (cat, Mouse), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mouse | det |
| 6 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 child | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 child | cop |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 child | acl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | cat | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | this child | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | this child not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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