The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 53
They started off, and when they reached it they found the pot in its place, but quite empty!
Who acts: others · What happens: start off, reach, find · To what, where: provision, pot, place
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 (others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 started | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 empty | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 empty | cc |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 empty | advmod |
| 20 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 started | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | others = other | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | others = other | provision | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | others = other | the pot | provision's place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic |
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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