The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 79
The Master Cat, who still went on before, met with some reapers, and said to them:
Who acts: Master Cat · What happens: go on, meet, say · To what, where: reapers · 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 (Master 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 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reapers | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 reapers | det |
| 14 | reapers | reaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Master Cat | still | before property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Master Cat not said here | with some reapers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reaper=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Cat not said here | reapers = reaper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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