The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 26
Old Gatto, being a sensible old cat, understood the little servant’s feelings.
Who acts: Old Gatto · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: sensible old cat, feelings
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 (Old Gatto), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Gatto | amod |
| 2 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cat | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cat | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cat | amod |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gatto | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gatto | punct |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servant | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 servant | amod |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 servant | case |
| 15 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 understood | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a sensible old cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | understand | past | Old Gatto | the little servant's feelings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus |
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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