The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 46
And the cat came in, holding up the two neat little feet in their silver slippers.
Who acts: cat · What happens: come in, hold up · To what, where: two neat little feet, silver slippers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 holding | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 11 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 holding | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 slippers | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slippers | compound |
| 17 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 holding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold up | gerund | the cat not said here | the two neat little feet | feet's silver slippers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foot=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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