Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 23
However, the captain stroked the cat, and called, "Pussy, pussy, pussy!" and then the queen ventured to touch her.
Who acts: captain, queen · What happens: stroke, call, venture, touch · To what, where: cat, queen · 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, queen), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 stroked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroked | nsubj |
| 5 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stroked | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pussy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pussy | punct |
| 13 | Pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pussy | punct |
| 15 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Pussy | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pussy | punct |
| 17 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Pussy | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 pussy | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pussy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ventured | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ventured | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 queen | det |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ventured | nsubj |
| 24 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Pussy | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 touch | mark |
| 26 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ventured | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 touch | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | the captain | the cat | however property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the captain not said here | pussy property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | venture | past | the queen | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | touch | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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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