English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 18

Jack took the cat, and began carrying it very carefully in his hands, but in a short time pussy scratched him so much that he was compelled to let it go.

Who acts: Jack, cat · What happens: take, begin, carry, scratch, compel, let · To what, where: cat, hands, Jack, short time pussy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carrying	obj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 carefully	advmod
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 carrying	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carrying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 scratched	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 scratched	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 pussy	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pussy	det
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pussy	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pussy	compound
21	pussy	pussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scratched	obl
22	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 scratched	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	22 scratched	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 compelled	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 compelled	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 compelled	aux:pass
29	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 scratched	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 let	mark
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 compelled	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Jack		the cat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cat=Destination
2	begin	past	Jack not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	carry	gerund	Jack not said here	cat		Jack's hands	carefully property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location
4	scratch	past	Jack not said here	Jack		a short time pussy		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pussy=Destination
5	compel	past · passive		Jack				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	let	to-infinitive		cat				tree rules
7	go	infinitive	cat not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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