The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 38

As for the cats, she chased them away, and ill-treated them, so that they had not even the spirit to chase the rats and mice, which nowadays ran about everywhere.

Who acts: girl, cows · What happens: chase away, treat, not spirit, chase, run about · To what, where: cows, rats

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, cows), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 cats	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cats	det
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chased	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cats	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chased	nsubj
7	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chased	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 chased	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 treated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 treated	cc
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 treated	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
14	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chased	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 treated	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spirit	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 spirit	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spirit	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spirit	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 spirit	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 spirit	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spirit	det
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 treated	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 chase	mark
26	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 spirit	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rats	det
28	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 chase	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mice	cc
30	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rats	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ran	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 ran	obj
33	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	34 ran	advmod
34	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rats	acl:relcl
35	about	about	ADV	_	36 everywhere	advmod
36	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 ran	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	girl	cows = cow	as the cats; away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	treat	participle		cows = cow		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	not spirit	past	cows = cow			tree rules
4	chase	to-infinitive		the rats and mice		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
5	run about	past		the rats and mice	everywhere, nowadays property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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