The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 42

The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up.

Who acts: Mouse, Cat, greedy Cat · What happens: have out, be, make, eat up · To what, where: good cleaning, house tidy, fat

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 (Mouse, Cat, greedy 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	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cleaning	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cleaning	amod
6	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	3 had	compound:prt
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tidy	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tidy	compound
18	tidy	tidy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ate	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cat	det
22	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Cat	amod
23	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ate	nsubj
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fat	det
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ate	obj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 bit	det
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ate	obl:unmarked
29	up	up	ADP	_	24 ate	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have out	past	the Mouse	a good cleaning		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Patient
2	is	past	the Cat		gone property	tree rules
3	make	past	the Mouse not said here	the house tidy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tidy=Product
4	eat up	past	the greedy Cat	the fat	every bit obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=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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