The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 50

Tho' the Cat's master did not build very much upon what he said, he had however often seen him play a great many cunning tricks to catch rats and mice; as when he used to hang by the heels, or hide himself in the meal, and make as if he were dead; so that he did not altogether despair of his affording him some help in his miserable condition.

Who acts: Tho, master · What happens: not build, say, see, play, catch, use · To what, where: Tho, great many cunning tricks, rats, master, meal, miserable condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tho, master), 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	Tho	Tho	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 build	nsubj
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 build	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 master	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Cat	case
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 build	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 build	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 build	advmod
9	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 build	advmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 build	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
19	however	however	ADV	_	21 seen	advmod
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 build	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	obj
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seen	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tricks	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tricks	amod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tricks	amod
27	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tricks	amod
28	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 play	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 catch	mark
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tricks	acl
31	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 catch	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mice	cc
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rats	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 used	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 used	mark
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 used	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 used	nsubj
38	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 build	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 hang	mark
40	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 used	xcomp
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 heels	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 heels	det
43	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hang	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hide	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 hide	cc
46	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hang	advcl
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 hide	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 meal	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 meal	det
50	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hide	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 make	cc
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 build	conj
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 dead	mark
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 dead	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 dead	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 dead	cop
58	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 make	advcl
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 despair	punct
60	so	so	SCONJ	_	66 despair	case
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 so	fixed
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 despair	nsubj
63	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 despair	aux
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 altogether	advmod
65	altogether	altogether	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 despair	amod
66	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 build	obl
67	of	of	SCONJ	_	69 affording	mark
68	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 affording	nsubj
69	affording	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	66 despair	acl
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 affording	obj
71	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	72 help	det
72	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 affording	obj
73	in	in	ADP	_	76 condition	case
74	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 condition	nmod:poss
75	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 condition	amod
76	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 affording	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not build	past · do-support	Tho			so altogether despair	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past · perfect	master	Tho		however, often property	tree rules
4	play	infinitive	Tho not said here	a great many cunning tricks			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
5	catch	to-infinitive	Tho not said here	rats and mice			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
6	use	past	master				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	hang	to-infinitive	master not said here			by the heels	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by heel=Location
8	hide	infinitive	master not said here	master	the meal		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in meal=Location
9	make	infinitive	Tho not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	is	past	master			dead property	tree rules
11	afford	gerund	master	Tho	master's miserable condition		tree rules
12	condition		master				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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