Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 16
"As well as yourself," said the mouse, and she struck out her leg proudly.
Who acts: mouse · What happens: say, strike out · To what, where: leg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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 | _ | 5 yourself | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 yourself | cc |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 As | fixed |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 As | fixed |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yourself | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 yourself | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struck | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 struck | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 struck | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 leg | nmod:poss |
| 17 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obj |
| 18 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 14 struck | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike out | past | mouse | mouse's leg | proudly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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