The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 71

Stooping down he seized it by the tail, and put it in his glove, and tied a piece of string across the opening of the glove, so that the mouse could not escape.

Who acts: castle, mouse · What happens: stoop down, seize, put, tie, not escape · To what, where: wrath, glove, piece, opening

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, mouse), 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	Stooping	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seized	csubj
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Stooping	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tail	det
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seized	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 glove	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 glove	nmod:poss
15	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tied	cc
18	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 string	case
22	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	across	across	ADP	_	25 opening	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 opening	det
25	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 glove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 glove	det
28	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 opening	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 escape	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 escape	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mouse	det
33	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 escape	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 escape	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 escape	advmod
36	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tied	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop down	gerund				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize	past	castle	wrath		by the tail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	castle not said here	wrath	castle's glove		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in glove=Destination
4	tie	past	castle not said here	a piece of string	the opening of the glove		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
5	not escape	could	the mouse				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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