The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 4
So he put on a pair of spectacles, and with a leather box in his hand, knocked at the door of the Bird's home.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: put, knock · To what, where: pair, leather box
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pair | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spectacles | case |
| 8 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 box | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 box | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 box | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 13 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | compound |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocked | punct |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 box | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knocked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Bird | det |
| 25 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Bird | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Cat | a pair of spectacles | with a leather box in Cat's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination | |||
| 2 | knock | participle | a leather box in Cat's hand not said here | at the door of the Bird's home | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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