The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 167

Now one day it chanced that Waska had gone down to the palace cellar to hunt for mice and rats, and seeing an especially fat, well-fed mouse, she pounced upon it, buried her claws in its soft fur, and was just going to gobble it up, when she was stopped by the pleading tones of the little creature, saying, ‘If you will only spare my life I may be of great service to you.

Who acts: cat, Waska, pleading tones, you, I · What happens: chance, go down, hunt, see, feed, pounce · To what, where: fat, mouse, claws, soft fur, cat, Waska · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Waska, pleading tones, you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 chanced	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chanced	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chanced	nsubj
5	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
7	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 chanced	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 cellar	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cellar	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cellar	compound
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gone	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 mice	case
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rats	cc
20	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mice	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seeing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seeing	cc
23	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chanced	advcl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fat	det
25	especially	especially	ADV	_	26 fat	advmod
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seeing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chanced	punct
28	well	well	INTJ	_	30 fed	discourse
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 well	punct
30	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chanced	parataxis
31	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fed	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pounced	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pounced	nsubj
34	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chanced	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pounced	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 buried	punct
38	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pounced	conj
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 claws	nmod:poss
40	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buried	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 fur	case
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 fur	nmod:poss
43	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 fur	amod
44	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 buried	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 going	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 going	cc
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 going	aux
48	just	just	ADV	_	49 going	advmod
49	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chanced	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 gobble	mark
51	gobble	gobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 going	xcomp
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gobble	obj
53	up	up	ADP	_	51 gobble	compound:prt
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stopped	punct
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 stopped	advmod
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 stopped	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 stopped	aux:pass
58	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chanced	parataxis
59	by	by	ADP	_	62 tones	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 tones	det
61	pleading	pleading	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 tones	compound
62	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 stopped	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	66 creature	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 creature	det
65	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 creature	amod
66	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 tones	nmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 saying	punct
68	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 stopped	advcl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 spare	punct
70	‘	'	PUNCT	_	75 spare	punct
71	If	if	SCONJ	_	75 spare	mark
72	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	75 spare	nsubj
73	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 spare	aux
74	only	only	ADV	_	75 spare	advmod
75	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 saying	conj
76	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 life	nmod:poss
77	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 spare	obj
78	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	83 service	nsubj
79	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	83 service	aux
80	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	83 service	cop
81	of	of	ADP	_	83 service	case
82	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 service	amod
83	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 saying	ccomp
84	to	to	ADP	_	85 you	case
85	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	83 service	nmod
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	cat				now; day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past · perfect	Waska					to the palace cellar; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	hunt	to-infinitive	Waska not said here					for mice and rats	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for mouse=Theme
4	see	gerund	cat not said here	a fat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fat=Stimulus
5	feed	participle			mouse				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient
6	pounce	past	Waska					upon cat	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
7	bury	past	Waska not said here	Waska's claws		cat's soft fur			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent claw=Theme in fur=Destination
8	go	past · progressive	cat not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	gobble up	to-infinitive	cat not said here	cat					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	stop	past · passive	the pleading tones of the little creature	Waska					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality
11	say speech: assert	gerund	the pleading tones of the little creature not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	spare a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my life					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
13	is	may	I		you			of great service	tree rules
14	intonate			the little creature					nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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