Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 28
Meanwhile, Rambé and Ambé had warned the other Mice to be on the lookout, and to be ready to take flight the moment the Cat showed any appearance of anger.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: warn, be, take, show · To what, where: Rambé, other Mice, lookout, flight, appearance
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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 warned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Ambé | cc |
| 5 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rambé | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warned | aux |
| 7 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mice | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Mice | amod |
| 10 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warned | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lookout | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lookout | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 lookout | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lookout | det |
| 15 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warned | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ready | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ready | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ready | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ready | cop |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warned | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ready | xcomp |
| 23 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Cat | det |
| 27 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 showed | nsubj |
| 28 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 moment | acl:relcl |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 appearance | det |
| 30 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 showed | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 anger | case |
| 32 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 appearance | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect · passive | Rambé and Ambé | the other Mice | meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the lookout | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | flight | moment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | past | the Cat | any appearance of anger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent appearance=Recipient |
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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