The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 14
‘If only it were a little pussy cat!’ she said.
Who acts: sight, nightingale · What happens: be, say · To what, where: little pussy cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, nightingale), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 cat | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 cat | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cat | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cat | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 8 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | advcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cat | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cat | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | sight | a little pussy cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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