The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 61
The Cat continued for two or three months, thus to carry his Majesty, from time to time, game of his master's taking.
Who acts: Cat, master · What happens: continue, carry, take · To what, where: Majesty
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 months | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 continued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 game | punct |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 taking | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taking | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 master | case |
| 26 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 game | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the Cat | month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | Cat's Majesty | time | thus property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme | ||
| 3 | take | Cat's master | nom taking «act 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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