Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 1

In a certain forest there once lived a fox, and near to the fox lived a man who had a cat that had been a good mouser in its youth, but was now old and half blind.

Who acts: fox, man, cat · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: fox, certain forest, man, cat, good mouser, youth

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, man, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 forest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 forest	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 forest	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 lived	advmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
12	near	near	ADV	_	15 fox	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fox	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 mouser	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 mouser	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 mouser	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mouser	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mouser	amod
28	mouser	mouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cat	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 youth	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 youth	nmod:poss
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mouser	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 old	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 old	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 old	cop
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 old	advmod
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lived	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 blind	cc
38	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	39 blind	advmod
39	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 old	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a fox	a certain forest		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fox=Location
2	live	past	the fox	a man				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
3	have	past	a man	a cat				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
4	is a	past · perfect	a cat	a good mouser	fox's youth			tree rules
5	is	past				now	old property	tree rules
6	be						half property	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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