The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 41
When the cat saw the wild boar’s ear, she pounced upon it, thinking it was a mouse in the straw.
Who acts: cat, boar, ear · What happens: see, pounce, think, be · To what, where: ear, mouse, straw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, boar, ear), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pounced | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boar | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boar | amod |
| 7 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 boar | case |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pounced | nsubj |
| 12 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pounced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pounced | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 mouse | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mouse | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mouse | det |
| 20 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thinking | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 straw | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 straw | det |
| 23 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mouse | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the cat | the wild boar's ear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pounce | past | boar | ear | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | boar not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | ear | a mouse | the straw | tree rules |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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