Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 17

What a monstrous cat he must be to have such an appetite!"

Who acts: monstrous cat · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 cat	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
3	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 appetite	det:predet
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 appetite	det
12	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	what monstrous cat					have property	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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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