English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 41
Dick went upstairs and brought down poor puss, with tears in his eyes, and gave her to the captain; “For,” he said, “I shall now be kept awake all night by the rats and mice.”
Who acts: Dick, rats · What happens: go, bring down, give, say, keep · To what, where: poor puss, Mr., Dick · 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, rats), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 brought | compound:prt |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 puss | amod |
| 8 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tears | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tears | case |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tears | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 captain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 captain | det |
| 21 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 For | punct |
| 24 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 said | mark |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 For | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 For | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kept | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 kept | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 kept | aux |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 kept | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 kept | aux:pass |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 said | ccomp |
| 36 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 kept | xcomp |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 rats | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 rats | det |
| 41 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kept | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 mice | cc |
| 43 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rats | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dick | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring down | past | Dick not said here | poor puss | with tears in Dick's eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent puss=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | Dick not said here | Mr. | to the captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to captain=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Dick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | shall · passive | the rats and mice | Dick | now; night | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: «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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