Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 21
The captain called, "Pussy, pussy, pussy!" and the cat came up and rubbed against his legs.
Who acts: captain · What happens: call, come up, rub · To what, where: captain, legs · 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), 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 | 16 came | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 captain | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pussy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pussy | punct |
| 6 | Pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 captain | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pussy | punct |
| 8 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Pussy | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pussy | punct |
| 10 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Pussy | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 pussy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pussy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cat | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 captain | conj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rubbed | cc |
| 19 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 came | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 legs | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 legs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rubbed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the captain and the cat not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come up | past | the captain and the cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub | participle | the captain and the cat not said here | king's legs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against leg=Destination |
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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