The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 36

The child is quite black, and has very white paws, but not a single white hair on its body.

Who acts: child · What happens: be, have · To what, where: white paws

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 (child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 black	advmod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 has	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 white	advmod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 paws	amod
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hair	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hair	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hair	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hair	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child					black property	tree rules
2	have	present		white paws					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient

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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