The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 52

‘Yes, indeed,’ answered the Cat; ‘it will taste as good to you as if you stretched your thin tongue out of the window.’

Who acts: provision, you · What happens: answer, taste, stretch · To what, where: Cat, good, thin tongue, window · 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 (provision, 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 answered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taste	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 taste	aux
14	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 taste	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 good	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 stretched	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 stretched	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 stretched	nsubj
22	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taste	advcl
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tongue	nmod:poss
24	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tongue	amod
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretched	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 window	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stretched	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 taste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the Cat		indeed property	tree rules
2	taste	future	provision	good				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme good=Attribute
3	stretch	past	you	your thin tongue		the window		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

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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