More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 74
The cat he pulled Lord Ratton down, The kittens they did claw his crown.
Who acts: cat, kittens · What happens: pull down, do, crown · To what, where: Lord, claw
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, kittens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 6 | Ratton | Ratton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lord | flat |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kittens | det |
| 10 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 did | nsubj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 13 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crown | nmod:poss |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past | the cat | Lord | down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent lord=Result | |||
| 2 | do | past | the kittens | claw | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | cat | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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: «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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