Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 17
The captain, with puss under his arm, reached the palace just in time to see the table crowded with rats.
Who acts: captain · What happens: reach, see, crowd · To what, where: palace, table
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), 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 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 puss | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 puss | case |
| 5 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 captain | appos |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puss | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 captain | punct |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 table | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rats | case |
| 22 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crowded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the captain | the palace | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the captain not said here | the table | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | crowd | participle | the table not said here | with rats | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rat=Theme |
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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