The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 4
This good counsel was followed, and a little pot of fat was bought.
What happens: follow, buy · To what, where: good counsel, little pot
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: 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 counsel | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 counsel | amod |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | aux:pass |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bought | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pot | amod |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fat | case |
| 12 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pot | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bought | aux:pass |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 followed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | this good counsel | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | past · passive | a little pot of fat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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