The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 9

So the little pot was placed in safety; but it was not long before the Cat had a great longing for it, and said to the Mouse, ‘I wanted to tell you, little Mouse, that my cousin has a little son, white with brown spots, and she wants me to be godmother to it.

Who acts: pot, Cat, I, cousin, me · What happens: place, not be, have, say, want, tell · To what, where: little pot, safety, great longing, Mouse, little Mouse, you · 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 (pot, Cat, I, cousin), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 placed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pot	amod
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	aux:pass
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 safety	case
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 long	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 long	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 placed	advmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 longing	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 longing	amod
21	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 longing	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 Mouse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Mouse	det
29	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Mouse	punct
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Mouse	amod
39	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 has	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 has	mark
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 cousin	nmod:poss
43	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 has	nsubj
44	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wanted	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 son	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 son	amod
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 has	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 white	punct
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 son	amod
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 spots	case
51	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 spots	amod
52	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 white	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 wants	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 wants	cc
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 wants	nsubj
56	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 has	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 wants	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	60 godmother	mark
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 godmother	cop
60	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wants	xcomp
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 it	case
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 godmother	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the little pot		safety		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in safety=Destination
2	not is	past	pot				long property	tree rules
3	have	past	the Cat	a great longing			for pot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past			the Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
5	want	past	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	little Mouse	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	have	present	my cousin	a little son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
8	want	present	cat	me				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
9	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	godmother	pot			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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