Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 33

She made a fierce leap right into the middle of the Mice, who, however, were thoroughly prepared for her, and in an instant they scuttled off in every direction to their holes.

Who acts: Cat, Mice · What happens: make, prepare, scuttle off · To what, where: fierce leap, middle, Mice, instant

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, Mice), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 leap	det
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leap	amod
5	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	9 middle	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Mice	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mice	det
12	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prepared	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 prepared	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 who	punct
16	however	however	ADV	_	20 prepared	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 however	punct
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 prepared	aux:pass
19	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	20 prepared	advmod
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Mice	appos
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prepared	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 scuttled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 scuttled	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 instant	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 instant	det
27	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scuttled	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 scuttled	nsubj
29	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 scuttled	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 direction	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 direction	det
33	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scuttled	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 holes	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 holes	nmod:poss
36	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 scuttled	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Cat	a fierce leap	the middle of the Mice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leap=Material into middle=Product
2	prepare	past · passive		the Mice		for Cat; however, thoroughly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary
3	scuttle off	past	Mice = mouse		a instant	in every direction; to Mice's holes	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hole=Destination

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 33