Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 50

‘All-gone’ was already on the poor mouse’s lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.

Who acts: All, mouse, cat · What happens: be, speak, spring, seize, swallow down · To what, where: tongue, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (All, mouse, cat), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gone	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spoken	advcl
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
7	already	already	ADV	_	13 lips	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 lips	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouse	amod
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lips	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 mouse	case
13	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 was	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoken	nsubj
18	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoken	obj
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 sprang	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sprang	nsubj
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sprang	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seized	punct
27	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sprang	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seized	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swallowed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swallowed	cc
31	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seized	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 swallowed	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 swallowed	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	All		gone property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect	mouse	tongue		tree rules
3	spring	past	the cat		on mouse	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Trajectory
4	seize	past	the cat not said here	cat		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	swallow down	past	the cat not said here	cat		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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