English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 88
Well, the little mouse said to them: “Leave me down, and I will get the little box for you.”
Who acts: little mouse · What happens: say, leave down, get · To what, where: birds, little mouse, little box · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Leave | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Leave | punct |
| 11 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Leave | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 Leave | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Leave | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 box | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 box | amod |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Leave | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little mouse | birds = bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave down in a quote | infinitive | the little mouse = mouse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | future | the little mouse = mouse | the little box | for birds = bird | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent box=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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