English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 32
The next day he saw a girl with a cat, and asked her, “Will you let me have that cat for a penny?”
Who acts: Dick, girl · What happens: see, ask, let, have · To what, where: girl, Dick, cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 cat | det |
| 23 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 penny | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 penny | det |
| 26 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Dick | a girl | day | with a cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Dick not said here | girl | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | future | girl | Dick | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | Dick not said here | that cat | for a penny | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
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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