The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 35

‘All good things in threes,’ she said to the Mouse; ‘I have again to stand godmother.

Who acts: mouth, I · What happens: say, have, stand · To what, where: Mouse, godmother · 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 (mouth, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 things	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 threes	case
6	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 things	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Mouse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mouse	det
13	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stand	mark
20	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
21	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stand	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mouth		the Mouse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
2	have	present	I			again	tree rules
3	stand	to-infinitive	I not said here	godmother			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus

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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