The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 37
This only happens once in two years, so you will let me go out?’
Who acts: This, you, me · What happens: happen, let, go out · To what, where: me
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 (This, you, me), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | csubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 happens | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happens | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 let | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | This | year | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | infinitive | me not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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