Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 34

And before the Cat had time to catch a single one the room was empty and not a sign of a Mouse was to be seen anywhere.

Who acts: room · What happens: catch, be, see, sign · To what, where: single one, time, Mouse

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 (room), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 seen	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	nsubj:pass
7	to	to	PART	_	8 catch	mark
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 empty	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 empty	cop
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sign	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 sign	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sign	det
19	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 empty	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Mouse	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Mouse	det
22	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sign	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux:pass
24	to	to	PART	_	26 seen	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 seen	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		a single one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	is	past	the room	a single one not said here	a sign of a Mouse conj; empty property	tree rules
3	see	past · passive		time	anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	sign			a Mouse		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 34