Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 29
At the appointed time the procession started as usual, and as soon as Rambé had passed the Cat he squeaked out:
Who acts: procession, Rambé · What happens: appoint, start, pass, squeak out · To what, where: Cat
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 (procession, Rambé), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 procession | det |
| 6 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 usual | case |
| 9 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 started | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 passed | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 passed | mark |
| 15 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | aux |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 started | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cat | det |
| 19 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 squeaked | nsubj |
| 21 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 squeaked | compound:prt |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | start | past | the procession | time | as usual | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | Rambé | the Cat | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | squeak out | past | procession | the Cat not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cat=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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