The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 6
‘The mice might dance on her and she would never catch one.
Who acts: mice, wife · What happens: dance, not catch · To what, where: one
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 (mice, wife), 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 dance | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mice | det |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dance | aux |
| 5 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dance | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 catch | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 catch | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 catch | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 catch | advmod |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dance | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 catch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | might | the mice | on wife | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | ||||
| 2 | not catch | would | wife | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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