Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 29

The cat’s mouth soon began to water for some more licking.

Who acts: mouth · What happens: begin · To what, where: water

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 (mouth), 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	4 mouth	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 cat	case
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 began	advmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 water	mark
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 licking	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 licking	det
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 licking	amod
12	licking	licking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cat's mouth	water				for some more licking; soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality

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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