The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 27

The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat.

Who acts: kind Mouse, Cat · What happens: agree, slink, eat up · To what, where: town wall, half

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 (kind Mouse, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mouse	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mouse	amod
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slunk	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 slunk	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cat	det
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slunk	nsubj
9	slunk	slink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wall	compound
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slunk	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 church	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 church	det
16	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slunk	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 ate	compound:prt
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 ate	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pot	det
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 half	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 fat	case
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pot	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the kind Mouse				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slink	past	the Cat		the town wall	to the church	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to church=Destination
3	eat up	past	the kind Mouse not said here	half of the pot of fat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

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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