--- title: This time she made sure of catching her victim, but the cat spied he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time she made sure of catching her victim, but the cat spied her out, and, springing from one of the boughs of the arbour she flew at Lagree’s face and tore out her only eye, thus delivering the Princess for ever from her persecutor. Who acts: Fairer, cat. 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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 (Fairer, cat), 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:pg640:24:2 # text = This time she made sure of catching her victim, but the cat spied her out, and, springing from one of the boughs of the arbour she flew at Lagree’s face and tore out her only eye, thus delivering the Princess for ever from her persecutor. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 victim victim NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spied spy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 springing spring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 arbour arbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 Lagree Lagree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 thus thus ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 delivering deliver VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 50 advmod _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 persecutor persecutor NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Fairer | | | | time | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **catch** | gerund | Fairer *not said here* | Fairer's victim | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Theme | | 3 | **spy out** | past | the cat | Fairer | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **spring** | gerund | Fairer *not said here* | | | | | from one of the boughs of the arbour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory | | 5 | **fly** | past | Fairer | | | Lagree's face | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at face=Location | | 6 | **tore out** | past | Fairer *not said here* | Fairer | | | | eye *obl* | tree rules | | 7 | **deliver** | gerund | Fairer *not said here* | the Princess | | | | for Fairer's persecutor; thus *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/3/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)