Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 18

The cat leaped out upon them, and oh! what havoc she did make among the trou-ble-some creatures!

Who acts: cat · What happens: leap out, havoc, make · To what, where: cat

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
3	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cat	acl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 leaped	compound:prt
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 havoc	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 havoc	cc
9	oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 havoc	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 oh	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 havoc	obj
12	havoc	havoc	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	among	among	ADP	_	23 creatures	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creatures	det
18	trou	trou	X	Foreign=Yes	23 creatures	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 trou	punct
20	ble	ble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creatures	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ble	punct
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 creatures	det
23	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leap out	participle		the cat not said here	upon rats = rat	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory
2	havoc	present	the cat not said here			tree rules
3	make	past · do-support	the cat		among the ble creatures	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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