English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 34
Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true.
Who acts: suggestion, Benfey · What happens: be, suggest
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 (suggestion, Benfey), 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 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suggestion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Benfey | case |
| 3 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ingenious | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ingenious | cop |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 ingenious | advmod |
| 6 | ingenious | ingenious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ingenious | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 ingenious | cc |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 ingenious | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 ingenious | advmod |
| 11 | ingenious | ingenious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ingenious | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 true | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ingenious | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ingenious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Benfey's suggestion | certainly, ingenious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Benfey's suggestion not said here | perhaps property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Benfey's suggestion not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suggest | Benfey | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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