The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 57
You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, then half of it gone, then----’
Who acts: You · What happens: eat, stand · To what, where: friend, godmother
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eaten | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 it | det |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 stood | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | advcl |
| 9 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 top | punct |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 top | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eaten | obl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 top | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 gone | advmod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 half | nmod |
| 20 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 top | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 then | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 gone | advmod |
| 23 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 22 then | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | You | friend | the top obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | stand | past | you | godmother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus |
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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