Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 43

But the cat, not understanding this joke, sprang at his face, and spat, and scratched at him.

Who acts: cat · What happens: not understand, spring, scratch · To what, where: joke, spat, face

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 cat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scratched	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 understanding	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understanding	advmod
6	understanding	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cat	acl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understanding	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct
10	sprang	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 understanding	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 face	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spat	cc
16	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scratched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scratched	cc
19	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 scratched	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 scratched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	gerund	the cat not said here	this joke			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
2	spring	gerund	the cat not said here	spat	cat's face		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at face=Trajectory
3	scratch	past	the cat			at cock	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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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