More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 20

"Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white spot on their chestesses.

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 here	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 here	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cats	punct
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cats	nummod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cats	amod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 here	nsubj
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 friend	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 friend	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cats	conj
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 friend	appos
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 all	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 here	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 spot	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spot	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spot	amod
18	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 all	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 chestesses	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chestesses	nmod:poss
21	chestesses	chestess	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 all	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 here	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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