English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 58
However a cat, observing something alive in the trap, patted it about till the wires broke, and set Thomas at liberty.
Who acts: cat, wires · What happens: observe, pat, break, set · To what, where: something, trap, Thomas, liberty
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, wires), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 12 patted | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 patted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 observing | punct |
| 5 | observing | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cat | acl |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 observing | obj |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trap | det |
| 10 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cat | punct |
| 12 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 patted | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 patted | advmod |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 broke | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wires | det |
| 17 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 broke | nsubj |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 patted | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 patted | conj |
| 22 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 liberty | case |
| 24 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund | a cat not said here | something | the trap | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 2 | pat | past | a cat | trap | about, however property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | past | the wires | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | set | past | a cat not said here | Thomas | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thomas=Theme at liberty=Destination |
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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