The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 14
She went straight to the church, slunk to the little pot of fat, began to lick it, and licked the top off.
Who acts: cat · What happens: go, slink, begin, lick, lick off · To what, where: church, little pot, fat, top
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 church | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 church | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slunk | punct |
| 8 | slunk | slink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 church | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pot | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pot | amod |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slunk | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fat | case |
| 14 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lick | mark |
| 18 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lick | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 licked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 licked | cc |
| 22 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 licked | obj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 licked | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cat | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | slink | participle | the church not said here | the little pot of fat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | cat not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lick | to-infinitive | cat not said here | fat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lick off | past | cat not said here | the top | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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