The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 47

When Susan saw this she said to her husband, ‘Just look, here is our old cat back again, and see what a lot of mice she has caught.’

Who acts: Susan · What happens: see, say, look, be, catch · To what, where: this, husband, old cat, lot · 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 (Susan), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 saw	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
12	Just	just	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 look	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 here	cop
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cat	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cat	amod
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 look	conj
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	27 lot	det
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lot	det
27	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caught	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 mice	case
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lot	nmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 caught	nsubj:pass
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 caught	aux
32	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 see	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Susan	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Susan		Susan's husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
3	look	infinitive		our old cat		again		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Attribute
4	is	present					here property	tree rules
5	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	catch	present · perfect · passive		what lot of mice				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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