Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 19

But when the cat saw the boar's bristles sticking out from behind the bushes he thought it was a mouse, and put up his back again and cried, "Ft! ft! ft!

Who acts: cat, bristles, boar · What happens: see, stick out, think, be, put up, cry · To what, where: bristles, bushes, mouse, back, Ft · Speech: someone speaks here

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, bristles, boar), 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	_	5 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boar	det
7	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bristles	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boar	case
9	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
10	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 saw	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 sticking	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 bushes	case
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 bushes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bushes	det
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sticking	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bushes	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mouse	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mouse	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mouse	det
21	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 put	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cried	cc
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Ft	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Ft	punct
33	Ft	ft	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cried	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
35	ft	ft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
37	ft	ft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	the cat	the boar's bristles			tree rules
2	stick out	gerund	the boar's bristles not said here		the bushes		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	cat	the bushes not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bush=Theme
4	is a	past	boar	a mouse			tree rules
5	put up	participle		cat's back		again	tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past		Ft			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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