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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 12

So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end of the room, and the Mice all went by in single file, each one making a profound salaam as it passed.

Who acts: evening, Cat, Mice, one, salaam · What happens: come, take, go, make, pass · To what, where: seat, cushion, profound 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 (evening, Cat, Mice, one), 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

advmodadvmodnsubjdetnsubjconjnmod:possobjcasedetoblcasenummodoblcasedetnmodpunctccdetnsubjadvmodconjcasecaseamodoblpunctdetapposacldetamodobjmarknsubjadvclpunctrootSoADVwhenADVeveningNOUNcameVERBtheDETCatNOUNtookVERBherPRONseatNOUNonADPaDETcushionNOUNatADPoneNUMendNOUNofADPtheDETroomNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETMiceNOUNallADVwentVERBbyADPinADPsingleADJfileNOUN,PUNCTeachDEToneNOUNmakingVERBaDETprofoundADJsalaamNOUNasSCONJitPRONpassedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 cameadvmod
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int4 cameadvmod
3eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Catdet
6CatcatNOUNNumber=Sing7 tooknsubj
7tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 cameconj
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 seatnmod:poss
9seatseatNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobj
10ononADP_12 cushioncase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 cushiondet
12cushioncushionNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobl
13atatADP_15 endcase
14oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 endnummod
15endendNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobl
16ofofADP_18 roomcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 roomdet
18roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing15 endnmod
19,,PUNCT_24 wentpunct
20andandCCONJ_24 wentcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Micedet
22MicemouseNOUNNumber=Plur24 wentnsubj
23allallADV_24 wentadvmod
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 cameconj
25bybyADP_28 filecase
26ininADP_28 filecase
27singlesingleADJDegree=Pos28 fileamod
28filefileNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
29,,PUNCT_31 onepunct
30eacheachDETPronType=Tot31 onedet
31oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing28 fileappos
32makingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger31 oneacl
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 salaamdet
34profoundprofoundADJDegree=Pos35 salaamamod
35salaamsalaamNOUNNumber=Sing32 makingobj
36asasSCONJ_38 passedmark
37ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 passednsubj
38passedpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 makingadvcl
39..PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepasteveningvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2takepastthe CatCat's seata cushionat one end of the roomvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on cushion=Destination
3gopastthe Miceby single file; all propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by file=Location
4makegerundeach one not said herea profound salaamvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product
5passpastsalaamvn occur-48.3-1 «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: «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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