English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 11

First she leapt, and then she ran, Till she came to the butcher, and thus began:

Who acts: farmer · What happens: leapt, run, come, begin · To what, where: butcher

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 leapt	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leapt	nsubj
3	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ran	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leapt	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	Till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 butcher	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 butcher	det
15	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 began	advmod
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	infinitive	farmer			first property	tree rules
2	run	past	farmer		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	farmer	the butcher			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to butcher=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	farmer not said here			thus property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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