The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 1
There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.
Who acts: miller · What happens: be, leave, have · To what, where: cat, more estate, three sons
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 miller | acl:relcl |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 estate | amod |
| 9 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sons | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sons | nummod |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sons | acl:relcl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 mill | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mill | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ass | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ass | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mill | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cat | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cat | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a miller | miller's cat | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past | a miller | more estate | the three sons | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent estate=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | miller | the three sons not said here | than miller's mill and miller's ass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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