Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 16

Now these two were much cleverer and more cunning than most of the others, and after a few days they noticed that the number of Mice in the house seemed to be decreasing very much, in spite of the fact that the Cat had promised not to kill any more.

Who acts: two, names, number, Cat · What happens: be, notice, seem, decrease, promise, not kill · To what, where: spite, fact · 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 (two, names, number, 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	6 cleverer	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 two	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cleverer	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cleverer	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 cleverer	advmod
6	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cunning	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 cunning	advmod
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleverer	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 most	case
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cleverer	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 others	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 most	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 noticed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 noticed	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 days	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 days	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 days	amod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 noticed	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 noticed	nsubj
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cleverer	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 seemed	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 number	det
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seemed	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Mice	case
27	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mice	nmod
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 noticed	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	34 decreasing	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 decreasing	aux
34	decreasing	decrease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 seemed	xcomp
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	34 decreasing	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spite	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 spite	case
39	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 decreasing	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 fact	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fact	det
42	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spite	nmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 promised	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Cat	det
45	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 promised	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 promised	aux
47	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 fact	acl
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 kill	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 kill	mark
50	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 promised	xcomp
51	any	any	ADV	_	52 more	advmod
52	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 kill	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cleverer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this two			now	than most of the others; cunning conj; clever property	tree rules
2	notice	past	names = name			day		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seem	past	the number of Mice in the house					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	decrease	to-infinitive · progressive	the number of Mice in the house not said here		spite of the fact			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	the Cat	the fact not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent fact=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	spite			the fact				nom spite «feeling 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 16

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 16