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Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 16

The captain made believe that he would be very sorry to part with the cat; but at last he went down to the ship to get her, while the king and queen made haste to have another dinner made ready.

Who acts: captain, king · What happens: make, believe, be, go down, get, have · To what, where: last, Whittington, haste, dinner · 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 (captain, king), 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

detnsubjxcompmarknsubjauxcopadvmodccompmarkccompcasedetnmodpunctcccaseoblnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblmarkadvclobjpunctmarkdetnsubjccconjparataxisxcompmarkadvcldetobjaclxcomppunctrootTheDETcaptainNOUNmadeVERBbelieveVERBthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXbeAUXveryADVsorryADJtoPARTpartNOUNwithADPtheDETcatNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJatADPlastADJhePRONwentVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETshipNOUNtoPARTgetVERBherPRON,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheDETkingNOUNandCCONJqueenNOUNmadeVERBhasteNOUNtoPARThaveVERBanotherDETdinnerNOUNmadeVERBreadyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 captaindet
2captaincaptainNOUNNumber=Sing3 madensubj
3mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf3 madexcomp
5thatthatSCONJ_10 sorrymark
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sorrynsubj
7wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 sorryaux
8bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 sorrycop
9veryveryADV_10 sorryadvmod
10sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos4 believeccomp
11totoPART_12 partmark
12partpartNOUNNumber=Sing10 sorryccomp
13withwithADP_15 catcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 catdet
15catcatNOUNNumber=Sing12 partnmod
16;;PUNCT_21 wentpunct
17butbutCCONJ_21 wentcc
18atatADP_19 lastcase
19lastlastADJDegree=Pos21 wentobl
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 wentnsubj
21wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 madeconj
22downdownADV_21 wentadvmod
23totoADP_25 shipcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 shipdet
25shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing21 wentobl
26totoPART_27 getmark
27getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf21 wentadvcl
28hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 getobj
29,,PUNCT_35 madepunct
30whilewhileSCONJ_35 mademark
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 kingdet
32kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing35 madensubj
33andandCCONJ_34 queencc
34queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing32 kingconj
35mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 wentparataxis
36hastehasteNOUNNumber=Sing35 madexcomp
37totoPART_38 havemark
38havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf35 madeadvcl
39anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind40 dinnerdet
40dinnerdinnerNOUNNumber=Sing38 haveobj
41mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass40 dinneracl
42readyreadyADJDegree=Pos41 madexcomp
43..PUNCT_3 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastthe captaintree rules
2believeinfinitivethe captain not said herevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3iswouldkingsorry propertytree rules
4go downpastkinglastto the ship; down propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5getto-infinitiveking not said hereWhittingtonvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
6makeparticiplethe king and queenhastevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7haveto-infinitivethe king and queen not said hereanother dinnervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
8makeparticipleanother dinner not said hereready propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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