Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 8

Tom now stole on a little further, with his eye fixed on the little man just as a cat does with a mouse.

Who acts: Tom, eye · What happens: steal, fix, do · To what, where: eye

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stole	advmod
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 further	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 further	obl
7	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stole	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eye	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 eye	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eye	nmod:poss
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 does	nsubj
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 eye	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fixed	obl
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 cat	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 cat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fixed	obl
21	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 mouse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mouse	det
24	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 does	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Tom		now	far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fix	participle		Tom's eye not said here		on the little man; as a cat	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	do	present	Tom's eye			with a mouse	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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