The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 14

About midnight the cat, who was still sleeping before the gate, was awakened by some water flung at her by the head rat, who could not make up his mind to open the doors.

Who acts: midnight cat, rat · What happens: sleep, awaken, fling, not make up, open, mind · To what, where: midnight cat, mind, doors

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight cat, rat), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 awakened	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sleeping	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sleeping	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sleeping	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 sleeping	advmod
9	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cat	acl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cat	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 awakened	aux:pass
15	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 awakened	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 rat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rat	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rat	compound
25	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 make	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 make	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 make	advmod
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 flung	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 make	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mind	nmod:poss
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 open	mark
35	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 make	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 doors	det
37	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 open	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	the midnight cat		before the gate; still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	awaken	past · passive		the midnight cat			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fling	past				by some water; at cat	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by water=Destination
4	not make up	could		rat's mind		by the head rat	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	open	to-infinitive		the doors			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	mind		rat				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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