Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 38
So out she skipped, but no sooner did pussy see her than he caught hold of her and popped her into his sack.
Who acts: Mammy, Phil · What happens: skip, see, catch, pop, hold · To what, where: Mammy, hold, sack
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mammy, Phil), 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 | _ | 2 out | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 skipped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 skipped | nsubj |
| 4 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 sooner | det |
| 8 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 see | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | pussy | pussy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | compound |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 skipped | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hold | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 popped | cc |
| 20 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skipped | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 popped | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sack | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sack | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 popped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | Mammy | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · do-support | Mammy not said here | Mammy | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | catch | past | Phil | hold of Mammy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pop | past | Mammy not said here | Mammy | into Phil's sack result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into sack=Result | |||
| 5 | hold | Mammy | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: «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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