The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 9

And with a very bad grace the cat untied the string and threw the golden ball into the lion’s lap, and composed himself to sleep again.

Who acts: cat · What happens: untie, throw, compose, sleep · To what, where: string, golden ball, lap, cat

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 untied	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	6 grace	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grace	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grace	amod
6	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 untied	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 untied	nsubj
9	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 string	det
11	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 untied	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 untied	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ball	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ball	amod
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 lap	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lap	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 lion	case
21	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 composed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 composed	cc
24	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 untied	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 composed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 composed	advcl
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 sleep	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 untied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	the cat	the string		with a bad grace	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
2	throw	past	the cat not said here	the golden ball		into the lion's lap result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer ball=Theme into lap=Result
3	compose	past	the cat not said here	cat			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the cat not said here		again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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