The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 21

After a time they had a visit from an old cat, whom they called their father, who lived by himself in a barn at the top of the hill, and came down from time to time to inspect the little colony.

Who acts: Cats, father · What happens: have, call, live, come down, inspect · To what, where: visit, old cat, barn, little colony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cats, father), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 visit	det
7	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 cat	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cat	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cat	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 father	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 lived	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 barn	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 barn	det
25	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hill	det
31	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 time	case
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 time	case
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 inspect	mark
41	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 time	acl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 colony	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 colony	amod
44	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 inspect	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cats = cat	a visit			time	from a old cat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Patient
2	call	past	Cats = cat		a old cat				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
3	live	past	Cats's father			a barn		by house; at the top of the hill	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barn=Location
4	come down	past	Cats = cat not said here				time	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	inspect	to-infinitive	Cats = cat not said here	the little colony					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=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: «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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