The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 2

That Cat seemed to be everywhere at once with his claws all ready for a pounce.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: seem, be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 everywhere	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 everywhere	cop
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 seemed	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 everywhere	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 claws	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 everywhere	obl
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 ready	advmod
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 claws	amod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 pounce	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pounce	det
16	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ready	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	that Cat						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	that Cat not said here					with Cat's claws; everywhere property	tree rules

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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