Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 19
Before long the cat was seized by another fit of yearning.
Who acts: fit · What happens: long, seize · To what, where: cat
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fit), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 long | mark |
| 2 | long | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seized | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux:pass |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 fit | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 fit | det |
| 9 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 yearning | case |
| 11 | yearning | yearning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fit | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | gerund | another fit of yearning not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | another fit of yearning | the cat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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