The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 54
‘Ah,’ said the Mouse,’ ‘now I know what has happened!
Who acts: I · What happens: say, know, happen · To what, where: Mouse · 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 (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 know | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Mouse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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