The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 8
Pussy stretched out her paw very carefully, pushed aside some of the cinders, and drew back her paw very quickly.
Who acts: Pussy · What happens: stretch out, push, draw back · To what, where: paw
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and 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 (Pussy), 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 | Pussy | Pussy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 stretched | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 paw | nmod:poss |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 carefully | advmod |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 stretched | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stretched | conj |
| 10 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 11 some | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 pushed | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cinders | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cinders | det |
| 14 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stretched | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paw | nmod:poss |
| 20 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Pussy | Pussy's paw | carefully property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | |||
| 2 | push | participle | Pussy not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw back | past | Pussy not said here | Pussy's paw | quickly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme |
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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