The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 58

‘Will you be quiet!’ screamed the Cat.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, scream · To what, where: Cat

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 screamed	advcl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
8	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 screamed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 screamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	you					quiet property	tree rules
2	scream speech: express	past		the Cat					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic

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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