English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 24

No one is likely to contend with Prof.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, contend

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 contend	mark
6	contend	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Prof	case
8	Prof	Prof	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 contend	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no one					likely property	tree rules
2	contend	to-infinitive	no one not said here					with Prof	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with prof=Co-Agent

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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