The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 3
She never catches any mice now-a-days, and is so useless that I have made up my mind to drown her.’
Who acts: wife, I, my · What happens: not catch, be, make up, drown, mind · To what, where: mice, mind, wife
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 (wife, I, my), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 catches | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 catches | advmod |
| 3 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 mice | det |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catches | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 days | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 now | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catches | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 useless | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 useless | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 useless | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 useless | advmod |
| 15 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 catches | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 useless | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drown | mark |
| 24 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drown | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catches | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 catches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | present | wife | any mice | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | wife not said here | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | present · perfect | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | drown | to-infinitive | I not said here | wife | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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