English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 1
The cat and the mouse Play'd in the malt-house:
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mouse | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cat | conj |
| 6 | Play | Play | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mouse | appos |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 10 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 malt | punct |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 'd | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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