English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 33

The girl said: “Yes, that I will, master, though she is an excellent mouser.”

Who acts: girl · What happens: say, be · To what, where: excellent mouser · 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 (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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 will	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 will	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 will	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 will	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 master	aux
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mouser	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 mouser	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 mouser	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mouser	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouser	det
18	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mouser	amod
19	mouser	mouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 master	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 mouser	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 mouser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	girl	a excellent mouser					tree rules

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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