The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 51
When the Cat had what he asked for, he booted himself very gallantly; and putting his bag about his neck, he held the strings of it in his two fore paws, and went into a warren where was great abundance of rabbits.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: have, ask, boot, put, hold, go · To what, where: Cat, bag, strings, two fore paws, warren, great abundance
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 held | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 booted | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 booted | nsubj |
| 11 | booted | boot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 booted | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 gallantly | advmod |
| 14 | gallantly | gallantly | ADV | _ | 11 booted | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 putting | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 putting | cc |
| 17 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 had | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bag | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 putting | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 neck | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 putting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 strings | det |
| 27 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 held | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 strings | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 paws | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 paws | nmod:poss |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 paws | nummod |
| 33 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 paws | amod |
| 34 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 held | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 held | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 warren | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 warren | det |
| 40 | warren | warren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 abundance | advmod |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 abundance | cop |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 abundance | amod |
| 44 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 warren | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 rabbits | case |
| 46 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 abundance | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Cat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | boot | past | Cat | Cat | gallantly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | put | gerund | the Cat not said here | Cat's bag | about Cat's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme about neck=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold | past | Cat | the strings of bag | Cat's two fore paws | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Theme in paw=Location | |||
| 6 | go | past | Cat not said here | a warren | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into warren=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | great abundance | of rabbits | tree rules |
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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