Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 13

Now the cunning old Cat had arranged this little plan very carefully with an object of her own; for, as soon as the procession had all passed by with the exception of one little Mouse, she suddenly seized the last Mouse in her claws without anybody else noticing what had happened, and devoured it at her leisure.

Who acts: cunning old Cat, Cat · What happens: arrange, pass, seize, notice, happen, devour · To what, where: little plan, last Mouse, claws, plan, leisure, one little Mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cunning old Cat, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 arranged	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
3	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Cat	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Cat	amod
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arranged	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arranged	aux
7	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 plan	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arranged	obj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 carefully	advmod
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 plan	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 object	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 object	det
15	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 object	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 passed	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 soon	case
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 soon	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 passed	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 procession	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 procession	det
26	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	aux
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 passed	advmod
29	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 arranged	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 exception	case
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 exception	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 exception	det
33	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Mouse	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 Mouse	nummod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Mouse	amod
37	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 exception	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seized	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seized	nsubj
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	41 seized	advmod
41	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passed	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Mouse	det
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Mouse	amod
44	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seized	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 claws	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 claws	nmod:poss
47	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 seized	obl
48	without	without	ADP	_	49 anybody	case
49	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 seized	obl
50	else	else	ADV	_	49 anybody	advmod
51	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 anybody	acl
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 happened	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 happened	aux
54	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 noticing	ccomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 devoured	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 devoured	cc
57	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 seized	conj
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 devoured	obj
59	at	at	ADP	_	61 leisure	case
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 leisure	nmod:poss
61	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 devoured	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · perfect	the cunning old Cat	this little plan		now	with a object of Cat's own	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plan=Patient with object=Instrument
2	pass	past · perfect	the cunning old Cat not said here				as the procession; by the exception of one little Mouse; all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by exception=Location
3	seize	past	Cat	the last Mouse	Cat's claws		without anybody; suddenly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	notice	gerund						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	happen	past · perfect					what nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	devour	past	Cat not said here	plan	Cat's leisure			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	except			one little Mouse				nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 13

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 13