Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 3

But as time passed on she found that she was growing old and infirm, and that it was becoming more and more difficult for her to catch the same number of Mice as before; so after thinking very carefully what was the best thing to do, she one day called all the Mice together, and after promising not to touch them, she addressed them as follows:

Who acts: Cat, difficulty · What happens: pass, find, grow, become, catch, think · To what, where: time, same number, best thing, Cat, Mice · 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 she	case
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passed	obl
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 growing	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 growing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 growing	aux
11	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	ccomp
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 growing	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 infirm	cc
14	infirm	infirm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 becoming	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 becoming	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 becoming	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 becoming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 becoming	aux
20	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	advcl
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 difficult	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 difficult	cc
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 difficult	advmod
24	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 becoming	advcl
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 catch	mark
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 catch	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 catch	mark
28	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 difficult	csubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 number	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 number	amod
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catch	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Mice	case
33	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 number	nmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 before	case
35	before	before	ADV	_	28 catch	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 called	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	53 called	advmod
38	after	after	SCONJ	_	39 thinking	mark
39	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 called	advcl
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 carefully	advmod
41	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	46 thing	advmod
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 thing	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 thing	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 thing	det
45	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 thing	amod
46	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thinking	ccomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 do	mark
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 thing	acl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thinking	punct
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 called	nsubj:pass
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 day	nummod
52	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 called	obl:unmarked
53	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 Mice	det:predet
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Mice	det
56	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 called	xcomp
57	together	together	ADV	_	53 called	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 addressed	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 addressed	cc
60	after	after	SCONJ	_	61 promising	mark
61	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	68 addressed	advcl
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 touch	advmod
63	to	to	PART	_	64 touch	mark
64	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 promising	xcomp
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 touch	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 promising	punct
67	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 addressed	nsubj
68	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 addressed	obj
70	as	as	SCONJ	_	71 follows	mark
71	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 addressed	advcl
72	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		time not said here		on Cat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location
2	find	past			time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	grow	past · progressive	Cat			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past · progressive	difficulty				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	catch	to-infinitive	Cat	the same number of Mice			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
6	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		the best thing		what nsubj; carefully property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	call	participle · passive		Cat	day	all Mice xcomp; together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
10	promise speech: promise	gerund	Cat not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	not touch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	Mice = mouse			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
12	address	past	Cat	Mice = mouse			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination
13	follow	present	Cat not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 3

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 3