Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 65
The cat standing on the steps put up its back and cried "mew."
Who acts: cat · What happens: stand, put up, cry · To what, where: back, mew
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 cat | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 steps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steps | det |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 standing | obl |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mew | punct |
| 14 | mew | mew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mew | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the cat not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | put up | past | the cat | cat's back | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent back=Goal | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the cat not said here | mew | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mew=Topic |
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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