Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 11

So they very thankfully promised to fulfil the Cat’s conditions, and agreed that they would file past her and make a salaam twice every day.

Who acts: Mice, Cat · What happens: promise, fulfil, agree, file, make, condition · To what, where: Mice, conditions, salaam

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, Cat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 promised	nsubj:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 thankfully	advmod
4	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
5	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fulfil	mark
7	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promised	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conditions	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Cat	case
11	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fulfil	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agreed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 agreed	cc
14	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 file	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 file	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 file	aux
18	file	file	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 agreed	xcomp
19	past	past	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 file	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 file	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 salaam	det
24	salaam	salaam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 make	advmod
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	participle · passive		Mice = mouse		thankfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fulfil not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Cat's conditions			tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	file not said to happen	would	Mice = mouse			past Cat	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past she=Initial_Location
5	make	infinitive	Mice = mouse not said here	a salaam	day	twice property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product
6	condition		the Cat				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 11