Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 25
The captain then put the cat down on the queen's lap, where she purred and purred until she went to sleep.
Who acts: captain, queen · What happens: put down, purr, go, sleep · To what, where: cat, lap
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 12 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 purred | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 purred | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 purred | nsubj |
| 16 | purred | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 purred | cc |
| 18 | purred | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 purred | conj |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 went | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 purred | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | the captain | the cat | the queen's lap | then | down property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on lap=Destination | |
| 2 | purr | past | queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | purr | past | queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | queen | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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