The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 163
After that the cat left the town and took up its abode in a thicket near the road.
Who acts: cat · What happens: leave, take up · To what, where: town, abode, thicket
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 left | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 abode | nmod:poss |
| 12 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 thicket | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thicket | det |
| 15 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the cat | the town | after that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 2 | take up | past | the cat not said here | town's abode | a thicket | near the road | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in thicket=Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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