Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 15
So the cat and the fox went to the banquet, and when the cat saw the bacon, he put up his back and stuck out his tail, and cried, "Mee-oo, mee-oo!" with all his might.
Who acts: cat · What happens: go, see, put up, stick out, cry · To what, where: banquet, bacon, back, tail, Mee oo
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fox | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 banquet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 banquet | det |
| 10 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bacon | det |
| 18 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stuck | cc |
| 26 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 stuck | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tail | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stuck | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cried | cc |
| 32 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 oo | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 oo | punct |
| 35 | Mee | Mee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 oo | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Mee | punct |
| 37 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cried | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 oo | punct |
| 39 | mee | mee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 oo | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 mee | punct |
| 41 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 oo | conj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 44 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 47 might | mark |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 might | det:predet |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 might | nmod:poss |
| 47 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 cried | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cat and the fox | the banquet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to banquet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the cat | the bacon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bacon=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put up | past | cat | cat's back | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent back=Goal | ||||
| 4 | stick out | past | cat not said here | cat's tail | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the cat and the fox not said here | Mee oo and mee oo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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