Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 14
And so twice every day, she seized the last Mouse of the series, and for a long time lived very comfortably without any trouble at all in catching her Mice, and without any of the Mice realising what was happening.
Who acts: Cat, any · What happens: seize, live, catch, realise, happen · To what, where: last Mouse, Mice · 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 (Cat, any), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seized | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 seized | advmod |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 day | advmod |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mouse | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mouse | amod |
| 11 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 series | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 series | det |
| 14 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mouse | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 comfortably | advmod |
| 23 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 21 lived | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 trouble | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 trouble | det |
| 26 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 trouble | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 catching | mark |
| 30 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 lived | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Mice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 catching | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 realising | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 realising | cc |
| 35 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 any | case |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 realising | nsubj:outer |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Mice | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Mice | det |
| 39 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 any | nmod |
| 40 | realising | realise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seized | advcl |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 happening | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 happening | aux |
| 43 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 realising | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Cat | the last Mouse of the series | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | Cat not said here | time | without any trouble at all; comfortably property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | catch | gerund | Cat not said here | Cat's Mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | realise | gerund | any of the Mice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | happen | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn 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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