The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 44
‘Pussy, grey pussy, tell us how we are to get away from the witch?’
Who acts: Pussy grey pussy, we · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pussy grey pussy, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pussy | punct |
| 2 | Pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pussy | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pussy | punct |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pussy | amod |
| 5 | pussy | pussy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pussy | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 get | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 witch | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Pussy grey pussy | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | we | from the witch; away, get property | 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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