The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 40
‘Oh, you sit at home in your dark grey coat and your long tail,’ said the Cat, ‘and you get fanciful.
Who acts: you · What happens: sit, say, get · To what, where: home, Cat · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 sit | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 sit | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coat | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 coat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coat | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coat | amod |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tail | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tail | amod |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coat | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cat | det |
| 21 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | conj |
| 27 | fanciful | fanciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | you | home | in your dark grey coat and your long tail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | present | you | fanciful property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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