Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 2
For many years the Cat found no difficulty in catching as many Mice as she wanted to eat, and she lived a very peaceful and pleasant life.
Who acts: Cat, difficulty · What happens: find, catch, want, eat, live · To what, where: difficulty, many Mice, peaceful life
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, difficulty), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 difficulty | det |
| 8 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 catching | mark |
| 10 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 difficulty | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Mice | amod |
| 13 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 catching | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 catching | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 eat | mark |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wanted | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 life | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 peaceful | advmod |
| 25 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pleasant | cc |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peaceful | conj |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Cat | no difficulty | year | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic | |||
| 2 | catch | gerund | no difficulty not said here | many Mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Cat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | past | Cat | a peaceful life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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