The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 63

But the cat curled up its tail and put its back up, and answered: ‘I have served you all these years and you never even threw me a bone, but the dear children gave me their own piece of ham.’

Who acts: cat, I, you, dear children · What happens: curl up, put up, answer, serve, not throw, give · To what, where: tail, back, you, bone, me, own piece · 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 (cat, I, you, dear children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 curled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	nsubj
4	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 curled	compound:prt
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curled	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curled	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 served	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 served	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 served	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 served	aux
20	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 answered	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 served	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 years	det:predet
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 years	det
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 served	obl:unmarked
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 threw	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 threw	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 threw	advmod
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 served	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bone	det
32	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gave	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 gave	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 children	det
36	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 children	amod
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gave	nsubj
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curled	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 gave	iobj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 piece	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 piece	amod
42	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gave	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 ham	case
44	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 piece	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 curled	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 curled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	curl up	participle	the cat	porringer's tail			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	put up	infinitive	the cat not said here	porringer's back			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent back=Goal
3	answer speech: assert	past					tree rules
4	serve	present · perfect	I	you		year	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
5	not throw	past	you	a bone	me		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bone=Theme
6	give	past	the dear children	children's own piece of ham	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme

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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