The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 39

Halfgone!’ repeated the Mouse, ‘they are such curious names; they make me very thoughtful.’

Who acts: Halfgone, paws · What happens: repeat, be, make · To what, where: Mouse, such curious names, 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 (Halfgone, paws), 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	Halfgone	Halfgone	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Halfgone	punct
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Halfgone	punct
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mouse	det
6	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 names	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 names	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 names	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 names	cop
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 names	amod
12	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 names	amod
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 repeated	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 thoughtful	advmod
19	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Halfgone	the Mouse		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality
2	is a	present	paws = paw	such curious names		tree rules
3	make	present	paws = paw	me	thoughtful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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