The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39

The cat was on the table, and with two or three shakes a number of rats were lying dead round him.

Who acts: cat, two, rats · What happens: be, shake, lie · To what, where: table, number

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, two, rats), 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 table	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 table	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shakes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shakes	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 two	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 shakes	nsubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 three	cc
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 two	conj
13	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 table	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shakes	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 lying	mark
17	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lying	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 number	acl
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lying	xcomp
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dead	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 table	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cat		the table		tree rules
2	shake	present	two	a number			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent number=Patient
3	lie	past · progressive	rats	a number not said here		dead property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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