English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 60
The captain wondered at this, and asked if these vermin were not unpleasant.
Who acts: captain, vermin · What happens: wonder, ask, not be · To what, where: this
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 (captain, vermin), 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 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wondered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | parataxis |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 unpleasant | mark |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 vermin | det |
| 11 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 unpleasant | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unpleasant | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 unpleasant | advmod |
| 14 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the captain | this | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | this vermin | unpleasant property | 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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