The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 76
Prince sat on his hind legs with delight and mewed like a pussy cat.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit, mew · To what, where: hind legs
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legs | amod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 delight | case |
| 8 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mewed | cc |
| 10 | mewed | mew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sat | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 cat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 13 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cat | amod |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mewed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Prince | Prince's hind legs | with delight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | |||
| 2 | mew | participle | Prince not said here | like a pussy cat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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