Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 90

The tom cat, whom the mistress called, "My little son," was a great favorite; he could raise his back, and purr, and could even throw out sparks from his fur if it were stroked the wrong way.

Who acts: tom cat, cat · What happens: call, be, raise, purr, throw out, stroke · To what, where: mistress, great favorite, back, sparks, fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tom cat, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 favorite	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mistress	punct
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 mistress	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mistress	det
7	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	appos
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mistress	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 favorite	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 favorite	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 favorite	amod
19	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 raise	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 raise	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 raise	aux
23	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 favorite	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 raise	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 purr	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 purr	cc
28	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 raise	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 throw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 throw	cc
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 throw	aux
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 throw	advmod
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 purr	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 throw	compound:prt
35	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 fur	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fur	nmod:poss
38	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 throw	obl
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 stroked	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stroked	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stroked	aux:pass
42	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 throw	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 way	det
44	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 way	amod
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stroked	obl:unmarked
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 favorite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the mistress not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the tom cat	a great favorite			tree rules
3	raise	could	cat	cat's back			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme
4	purr	present					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	throw out	could		sparks	cat's fur		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spark=Theme from fur=Initial_Location
6	stroke a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		back		the wrong way obl:unmarked	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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