The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 44
The Mouse asked at once after the third child’s name.
Who acts: Mouse, third child · What happens: ask, name
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 (Mouse, third 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 Mouse | det |
| 2 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 asked | obl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Mouse | after the third child's name | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | name | the third child | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/3/44/