English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 33
“Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse” also ends in a universal calamity which seems to arise from a cause of no great importance.
Who acts: Titty Mouse, universal calamity · What happens: end, seem, arise, cause · To what, where: universal calamity, cause, great importance
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 (Titty Mouse, universal calamity), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mouse | punct |
| 2 | Titty | titty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mouse | compound |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Tatty | cc |
| 5 | Tatty | Tatty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mouse | conj |
| 6 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tatty | flat |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mouse | punct |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 ends | advmod |
| 9 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 calamity | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 calamity | det |
| 12 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 calamity | amod |
| 13 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ends | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 calamity | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 arise | mark |
| 17 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cause | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arise | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 importance | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 importance | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 importance | amod |
| 24 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Titty Mouse and Tatty | a universal calamity | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | a universal calamity | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | arise | to-infinitive | a universal calamity not said here | a cause of no great importance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | no great importance | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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