English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 1

The Mouse went to visit the Cat, and found her sitting behind the hall door, spinning.

Who acts: Mouse, Cat · What happens: go, visit, find, sit, spin · To what, where: Cat, hall door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 found	xcomp
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	compound
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spinning	punct
18	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sitting	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the Mouse			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here	the Cat		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent
3	find	past	the Mouse not said here	Cat		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
4	sit	gerund	Cat not said here		the hall door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location
5	spin	gerund	Cat not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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