English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 34
Dick hid his cat in the garret, and always took care to carry a part of his dinner to her; and in a short time he had no more trouble with the rats and mice, but slept quite sound every night.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: hide, take, carry, have, sleep · To what, where: cat, garret, care, part, girl, more trouble
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garret | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garret | det |
| 7 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 took | advmod |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dinner | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 trouble | det |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 trouble | amod |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 rats | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rats | det |
| 35 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 trouble | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 mice | cc |
| 37 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rats | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 slept | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 slept | cc |
| 40 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 41 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 42 sound | advmod |
| 42 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slept | obj |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 night | det |
| 44 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Dick | Dick's cat | the garret | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Patient in garret=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | Dick not said here | care | always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | a part of Dick's dinner | girl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | past | Dick | no more trouble | time | with the rats and mice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||
| 5 | sleep | past | sound | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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