--- title: I could be invisible and patient as a wild cat crouching among leave… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I could be invisible and patient as a wild cat crouching among leaves; I could smell danger in my sleep and leap at it with wakeful claws; I could bark and growl and clash with my teeth and tear with them.” Who acts: I, wild cat, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wild cat, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:6:8 # text = I could be invisible and patient as a wild cat crouching among leaves; I could smell danger in my sleep and leap at it with wakeful claws; I could bark and growl and clash with my teeth and tear with them.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 crouching crouch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 18 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 leap leap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 wakeful wakeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 bark bark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 growl growl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 clash clash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | could | I | | | | | invisible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | I *not said here* | | | | | as a wild cat | tree rules | | 3 | **crouch** | gerund | a wild cat *not said here* | | | leaves | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location | | 4 | **smell** | could | I | danger | | my sleep | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Theme in sleep=Location | | 5 | **leap** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | sleep | | with wakeful claws | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory | | 6 | **bark** | could | I | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **growl** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **clash** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | with my teeth | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tooth=Co-Agent | | 9 | **tear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | with teeth *= tooth* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with they=Instrument | | 10 | **sleep** | | my | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/)