Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 12

He remembered the cat which little Whittington had sent out; and he told the king that he had a little creature on board his ship which would make short work of the pests.

Who acts: king, little Whittington, ship, pests · What happens: remember, send out, tell, have, make, work · To what, where: cat, king, little creature, ship, short work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, little Whittington, ship, pests), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sent	obj
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Whittington	amod
7	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cat	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 sent	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 creature	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creature	amod
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 ship	case
24	board	board	ADP	_	26 ship	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ship	nmod:poss
26	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 make	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ship	acl:relcl
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 work	amod
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 pests	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pests	det
34	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 work	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	remember	past	king	the cat			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	send out	past · perfect	little Whittington	the cat			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	king		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	king	a little creature		king's ship	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
5	make	would	king's ship	short work of the pests			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product
6	work		the pests				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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