Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 66

The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth by some device.

Who acts: Cat, HOUSE · What happens: be, get, perceive, tempt · To what, where: Cat

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, HOUSE), 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	6 able	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 able	advmod
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceived	cc
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tempt	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tempt	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tempt	aux
16	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 perceived	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tempt	obj
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 tempt	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 device	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 device	det
21	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tempt	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Cat		able, long property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here		at Cat	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	perceive	past	the Cat not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tempt	must	HOUSE	Cat	by some device; forth property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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