The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 4
But his wife replied, ‘Don’t do that, for I’m sure she could still catch mice.’
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: reply, not do, be, catch · To what, where: that, mice · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 replied | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sure | case |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 catch | aux |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 catch | advmod |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Simon's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do | infinitive · do-support | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | could | wife | mice | still | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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 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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