Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 47
So out she popped, and the cat pounced upon her, and killed her too.
Who acts: pottage, cat · What happens: pop, pounce, kill · To what, where: pottage
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 (pottage, 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 | _ | 2 out | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 popped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 popped | nsubj |
| 4 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pounced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pounced | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pounced | nsubj |
| 9 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 popped | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pounced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 killed | cc |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 popped | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | obj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 killed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 popped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | past | pottage | out property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pounce | past | the cat | upon pottage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | pottage not said here | pottage | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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