Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 113

Then the Devil seemed to take possession of the cat too, for pussy leaped from under the stove and began to spring and bound about also.

Who acts: Devil · What happens: seem, take, leap, begin, spring, bound · To what, where: possession, pussy, stove, cat

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Devil	det
3	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possession	nmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pussy	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 pussy	case
14	pussy	pussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
15	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pussy	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 stove	case
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 stove	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stove	det
19	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaped	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 spring	mark
23	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bound	cc
25	bound	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 spring	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 also	advmod
27	also	also	ADV	_	25 bound	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Devil			then		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	take	to-infinitive	the Devil not said here	possession of the cat			for pussy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent possession=Theme for pussy=Beneficiary
3	leap	participle		pussy not said here	the stove			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stove=Trajectory
4	begin	past	the Devil not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	spring	to-infinitive	the Devil not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bound	infinitive	the Devil not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	possess			the cat				nom possession «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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