The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 25

But when cats make up their minds to do anything they generally DO it; and this cat began to look about to see if there was really no way of getting at his ball.

Who acts: cats, minds, cat, way, mountains · What happens: make up, do, begin, look, see, be · To what, where: minds, anything, crack, ball

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 (cats, minds, cat, way), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 minds	nmod:poss
7	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 do	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 DO	nsubj
12	generally	generally	ADV	_	13 DO	advmod
13	DO	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anything	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 DO	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	about	about	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 look	advcl
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 see	ccomp
28	really	really	ADV	_	30 way	advmod
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 getting	mark
32	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 way	acl
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 ball	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ball	nmod:poss
35	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 getting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	present	cats	mountains's minds			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	mountains's minds not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	do	present	minds = mind	crack		generally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	begin	past	this cat				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	look	to-infinitive	this cat not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	to-infinitive	this cat not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	gerund	no way not said here		cat's ball		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	mind		mountains = mountain				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 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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