Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 25

But the cat remained in the midst of all the good things and ate away at the bacon, and the little fox gobbled up the honey, and they ate and ate till they couldn't eat any more, and then they both went home licking their paws.

Who acts: cat, little fox, things · What happens: remain, eat away, gobble up, eat, not eat, go · To what, where: midst, bacon, honey, paws

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, little fox, things), 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	_	4 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 midst	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 midst	det
7	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 things	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 things	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 midst	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 ate	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 bacon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bacon	det
18	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gobbled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gobbled	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fox	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fox	amod
23	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gobbled	nsubj
24	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 remained	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 gobbled	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 honey	det
27	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gobbled	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ate	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ate	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ate	nsubj
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ate	cc
33	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ate	conj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 eat	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 eat	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 eat	aux
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 eat	advmod
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ate	advcl
39	any	any	ADV	_	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 eat	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 went	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 went	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	nsubj
45	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	46 went	advmod
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ate	conj
47	home	home	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
48	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 went	xcomp
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 paws	nmod:poss
50	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 licking	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	participle	the cat		the midst of all good things			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
2	eat away	past	the cat not said here		the bacon		away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gobble up	participle	the little fox	the honey				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
4	eat	past	things = thing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	past	things = thing not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not eat	could	things = thing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	things = thing			then	home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	lick	gerund	things = thing not said here	things's paws				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source

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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