The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 34

Soon the Cat’s mouth began to water once more after her licking business.

Who acts: mouth · What happens: begin, lick · To what, where: water, business

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 (mouth), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouth	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Cat	case
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 water	mark
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 began	advmod
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 licking	mark
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 licking	nsubj
13	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 began	advcl
14	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 licking	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Cat's mouth	water				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality
2	lick	gerund	mouth	business					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent business=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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