The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 6
At length, after long consultation, the Cat said, ‘I know of no place where it could be better put than in the church.
Who acts: Cat, I, place · What happens: say, know, be, put · To what, where: length · 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 (Cat, I, place), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consultation | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 consultation | case |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 consultation | amod |
| 6 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cat | det |
| 9 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 better | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 better | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 better | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 better | cop |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 better | acl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 church | case |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 church | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 church | det |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | length and long consultation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | of no place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | could | place | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | than the church | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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