The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 24

Another movement, and, by stretching out his paw, he would be able to draw the string towards him, when the branch gave a loud crack, and the cat made haste to wriggle himself back the way he had come.

Who acts: cat, branch · What happens: stretch out, be, draw, give, make, haste · To what, where: paw, string, loud crack, cat, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, branch), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 movement	det
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stretching	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stretching	cc
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stretching	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 stretching	mark
7	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 movement	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 stretching	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paw	nmod:poss
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stretching	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 able	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stretching	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 draw	mark
17	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 string	det
19	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obj
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 draw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 gave	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 branch	det
25	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 draw	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crack	det
28	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crack	amod
29	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 haste	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 haste	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 haste	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 haste	amod
35	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 movement	appos
36	to	to	PART	_	37 wriggle	mark
37	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 haste	acl
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 wriggle	obj
39	back	back	ADV	_	37 wriggle	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wriggle	obl:unmarked
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 way	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 movement	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	gerund		cat's paw		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
2	is	would	cat		able property	tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive	cat not said here	the string	towards cat	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent string=Theme towards he=Destination
4	give	past	the branch	a loud crack		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme
5	make	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	haste		the cat			tree rules
7	wriggle back	to-infinitive		cat	the way obl:unmarked	tree rules
8	come	past · perfect	cat	the way not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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