The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 27

The cat replied, ‘I have caught many a mouse in my day, but now that I am old and past work, my master wants to drown me.’

Who acts: I, master · What happens: reply, catch, be, want, drown · To what, where: cat, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cat	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 caught	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	aux
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 caught	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 old	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 old	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 old	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 caught	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 work	cc
23	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 work	amod
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 old	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wants	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wants	nsubj
28	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 drown	mark
30	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wants	xcomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 drown	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle		the cat not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	present · perfect · passive		the cat	day		tree rules
3	is	present	I		now	old property	tree rules
4	want	present	my master				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	my master not said here	me			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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