The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 173
Some of the black cats had followed him, and, not having been fed for several days, they were fearfully hungry, and made terrible havoc among the mice.
Who acts: cats · What happens: follow, not feed, be, make · To what, where: black cats, terrible havoc
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 cats | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cats | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cats | det |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cats | amod |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | aux |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 followed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fed | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fed | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fed | advmod |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 fed | aux:pass |
| 15 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 followed | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hungry | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hungry | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hungry | cop |
| 22 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 23 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 followed | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | parataxis |
| 27 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 havoc | amod |
| 28 | havoc | havoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 mice | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mice | det |
| 31 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | some black cats | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not feed | gerund · perfect · passive | day | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient» | |||||
| 3 | is | past | cats = cat | fearfully, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | terrible havoc | among the mice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset havoc=Product |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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