English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 33

The cat came and ate it, my lady, my lady, The cat came and ate it, my lady.

Who acts: cat · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: lady, Mouse

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 (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 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lady	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lady	nmod:poss
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lady	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lady	nmod:poss
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lady	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lady	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lady	nmod:poss
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the cat	my lady and my lady		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	the cat not said here	Mouse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	come	past	the cat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	the cat not said here	Mouse	my lady obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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