More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 20

For when the basin of water is thrown in her face she "shakes her ears" just as a cat would.

What happens: throw, shake · To what, where: basin, face, ears

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	8 thrown	mark
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 thrown	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basin	det
4	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 basin	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 shakes	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thrown	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct
14	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shakes	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ears	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	22 would	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 would	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 would	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 shakes	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 shakes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		the basin of water		Cat's face			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in face=Destination
2	shake in a quote	present		Cat's ears					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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