The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 60

‘Clean-gone’ was already on the poor Mouse’s tongue, and scarcely was it out than the Cat made a spring at her, seized and swallowed her.

What happens: be, make, seize, swallow · To what, where: tongue, cat

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
2	Clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Clean	punct
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tongue	csubj
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tongue	cop
7	already	already	ADV	_	13 tongue	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 tongue	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mouse	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Mouse	amod
11	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tongue	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Mouse	case
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	18 it	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 it	compound:prt
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 Cat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cat	det
22	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 it	nmod
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tongue	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 spring	det
25	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seized	punct
29	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swallowed	cc
31	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seized	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 swallowed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tongue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past		the poor Mouse's tongue			tree rules
2	is a	past	tongue			than the Cat; scarcely property	tree rules
3	make	past			spring	at cat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	seize	past					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	swallow	past	cat				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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