Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 27
However, she disguised her feelings of anger and decided to give the Mice one more trial; so in the evening she took her seat as usual on the cushion and waited for the Mice to appear.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: disguise, decide, give, take, wait, appear · To what, where: feelings, Mice, seat, cushion
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 disguised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disguised | nsubj |
| 4 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disguised | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anger | case |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feelings | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 decided | cc |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disguised | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 decided | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mice | det |
| 14 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 trial | nummod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 trial | amod |
| 17 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Mice | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 evening | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evening | det |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disguised | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 seat | nmod:poss |
| 26 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 usual | case |
| 28 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 took | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 cushion | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cushion | det |
| 31 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 waited | cc |
| 33 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 Mice | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Mice | det |
| 36 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 waited | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 appear | mark |
| 38 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 waited | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | Cat | Cat's feelings of anger | however property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent feeling=Destination | |||
| 2 | decide | past | Cat not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | the Mice one more trial | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Cat | Cat's seat | the cushion | evening | as usual | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on cushion=Destination | |
| 5 | wait | past | Cat not said here | for the Mice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | appear | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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