The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 8
We will hide it in a corner, and we won’t touch it till we are in want.’
Who acts: We · What happens: hide, not touch, be · To what, where: trouble, corner
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hide | aux |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hide | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 touch | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 11 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hide | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touch | obj |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 want | case |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 want | case |
| 19 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | future | We | trouble | a corner | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | not touch | future | we | trouble | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | till want | tree rules |
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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