The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 15

Then she took a walk on the roofs of the town, looked at the view, stretched herself out in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the little pot of fat.

Who acts: cat · What happens: take, look, stretch out, lick, think · To what, where: walk, roofs, cat, lips

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 roofs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roofs	det
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roofs	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 view	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 view	det
16	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stretched	punct
18	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 stretched	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 stretched	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stretched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 licked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 licked	cc
26	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lips	nmod:poss
28	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 licked	obj
29	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 thought	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 licked	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 pot	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pot	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pot	amod
35	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thought	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 fat	case
37	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pot	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	cat	a walk	the roofs of the town	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme on roof=Destination
2	look	past	cat not said here				at the view	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at view=Theme
3	stretch out	past	cat not said here	cat			in the sun	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in sun=Topic
4	lick	past	cat not said here	cat's lips				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
5	think speech: other	past	cat				of the little pot of fat; whenever property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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 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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