Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 10

When the Mice heard this they were greatly pleased, for they thought that now, at last, they would be free from all danger from their former enemy, the Cat.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: hear, be, think · To what, where: this, last

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mice	det
3	Mice	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pleased	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	cop
8	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	9 pleased	advmod
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pleased	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 now	mark
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 thought	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 free	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 free	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 free	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 free	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 free	cop
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 danger	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 danger	det
26	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 free	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 enemy	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 enemy	nmod:poss
29	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 enemy	amod
30	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 danger	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Cat	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Cat	det
33	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 danger	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Mice	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	Mice = mouse				greatly, pleased property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Mice = mouse			now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	Mice = mouse		last		from all danger from Mice's former enemy and the Cat; free property	tree rules

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 10