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title: ‘Now I am expecting a visitor,’ said the field-mouse; ‘my neighbour… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now I am expecting a visitor,’ said the field-mouse; ‘my neighbour comes to call on me once a week. Who acts: I, neighbour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 141

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‘Now I am expecting a visitor,’ said the field-mouse; ‘my neighbour comes to call on me once a week.

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**Who acts:** I, neighbour · **What happens:** expect, say, come, call · **To what, where:** visitor, field mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:47:141
# text = ‘Now I am expecting a visitor,’ said the field-mouse; ‘my neighbour comes to call on me once a week.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | present · progressive | I | a visitor |  |  | now |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the field mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | my neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | my neighbour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on me; once *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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