The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 28

He placed the cat on the mantel shelf, and they all crowded round to examine this strange beast, and the cat rubbed itself against them, and held out its paw, and sang to them; and the women were delighted, and gave it everything that a cat could eat, and a great deal more besides.

Who acts: man, wife, cat, women, great deal · What happens: place, round, examine, rub, hold out, sing · To what, where: cat, mantel shelf, strange beast, paw, wife

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, cat, women), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 shelf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shelf	det
7	mantel	mantel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shelf	compound
8	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 round	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 round	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 round	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 round	det
13	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 round	amod
14	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 examine	mark
16	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 round	acl
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 beast	det
18	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beast	amod
19	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 examine	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rubbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rubbed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rubbed	nsubj
24	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 rubbed	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rubbed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 held	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 held	cc
30	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 placed	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 held	compound:prt
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 paw	nmod:poss
33	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 held	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sang	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sang	cc
36	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sang	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 delighted	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 delighted	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 women	det
42	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 delighted	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 delighted	cop
44	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 placed	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gave	cc
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 gave	obj
49	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	47 gave	obj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 eat	mark
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 cat	det
52	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 eat	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 eat	aux
54	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 everything	acl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 besides	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 besides	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 deal	det
58	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 deal	amod
59	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 besides	nsubj
60	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	61 besides	advmod
61	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 placed	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	man	the cat		the mantel shelf		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on shelf=Destination
2	round		wife					tree rules
3	examine	to-infinitive	man not said here	this strange beast				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
4	rub	past	the cat	cat			against wife	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme against they=Destination
5	hold out	participle	man not said here	cat's paw				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme
6	sing speech: express	past	man not said here		wife			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
7	is	past	the women				delighted property	tree rules
8	give	past	man not said here	paw				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient everything=Theme
9	eat	could	a cat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	beside		a great deal					tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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