Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 25
But she thought it was only an accident which had brought the two friends, one in front and one in rear of the procession, and she hoped to make up for her enforced abstinence by finding a particularly fat Mouse at the end of the procession next morning.
Who acts: Cat, number · What happens: think, be, bring, hope, make up, enforce · To what, where: accident, fat Mouse, end · 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, number), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 accident | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accident | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 accident | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 accident | det |
| 8 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 accident | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friends | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 friends | nummod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 accident | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rear | case |
| 22 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 procession | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 procession | det |
| 25 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rear | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hoped | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hoped | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hoped | nsubj |
| 29 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hoped | xcomp |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 make | compound:prt |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 abstinence | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 abstinence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 abstinence | amod |
| 36 | abstinence | abstinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obl |
| 37 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 38 finding | mark |
| 38 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 make | advcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Mouse | det |
| 40 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 42 Mouse | advmod |
| 41 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Mouse | compound |
| 42 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 finding | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 end | det |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 finding | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 procession | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 procession | det |
| 48 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 end | nmod |
| 49 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 morning | amod |
| 50 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 finding | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Cat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | number | a accident | one in front conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | a accident | the two friends obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme friend=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hope | past | Cat | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | for Cat's enforced abstinence | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enforce | participle | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | find | gerund | Cat not said here | a fat Mouse | at the end of the procession; morning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme at end=Asset |
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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