The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 141

‘Now I am expecting a visitor,’ said the field-mouse; ‘my neighbour comes to call on me once a week.

Who acts: I, neighbour · What happens: expect, say, come, call · To what, where: visitor, field mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, neighbour), 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 expecting	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 expecting	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 expecting	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expecting	aux
5	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 visitor	det
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expecting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expecting	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 expecting	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouse	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 field	punct
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbour	nmod:poss
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 call	mark
21	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 comes	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 call	obl
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 call	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 week	det
26	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 once	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	expect	present · progressive	I	a visitor	now		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the field mouse			tree rules
3	come	present	my neighbour				tree rules
4	call	to-infinitive	my neighbour not said here			on me; once property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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