English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 68
And the little mouse ran up the horse's leg, and made it dance; and Jack put the mouse in his pocket.
Who acts: little mouse, leg, Jack · What happens: run up, make, dance, put · To what, where: leg, mouse, pocket
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mouse, leg, Jack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mouse | amod |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leg | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mouse | det |
| 21 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pocket | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl | ||
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the little mouse | the horse's leg | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the little mouse not said here | leg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dance | infinitive | leg not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | past | Jack | the mouse | Jack's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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