The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 75

But the cat wriggled its way into the cellar, and the moment the Princess turned her back, he scratched and scratched till he had made a hole in the box.

Who acts: cat, moment · What happens: wriggle, turn, scratch, make · To what, where: way, cellar, back, hole, box

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, moment), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 wriggled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wriggled	nsubj
4	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wriggled	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wriggled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wriggled	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 scratched	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 scratched	nsubj
21	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wriggled	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scratched	cc
23	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 scratched	conj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 scratched	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hole	det
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 box	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 box	det
32	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hole	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wriggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wriggle	past	the cat	watch's way	the cellar	tree rules
2	turn	past	the moment	Princess's back		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	scratch	past	cat			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scratch	past	cat not said here			tree rules
5	make	past · perfect	cat	a hole	the box	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product

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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