The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 45

‘It won’t please you any better,’ said the Cat, ‘he was called Clean Gone.’

Who acts: better · What happens: say, call · To what, where: Cat, name · 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 (better), 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	_	8 better	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 better	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 better	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 better	advmod
5	please	please	INTJ	_	8 better	discourse
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 better	nsubj
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cat	det
13	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
19	Clean	Clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Gone	amod
20	Gone	Gone	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	better	the Cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	call	past · passive		name					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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