The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 10
You have nothing else to do but to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me that I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion in me as you imagine.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, do, give, get, make, scamper · To what, where: nothing, bag, me, pair, boots, dirt
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 boots | case |
| 18 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pair | nmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 boots | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 scamper | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 scamper | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 scamper | aux |
| 25 | scamper | scamper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | xcomp |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 dirt | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dirt | det |
| 28 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scamper | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brambles | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brambles | det |
| 31 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dirt | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 see | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 bad | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 bad | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 bad | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 bad | advmod |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 bad | advmod |
| 42 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 see | ccomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 portion | det |
| 44 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bad | nsubj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 portion | nmod |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 imagine | mark |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 imagine | nsubj |
| 49 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 bad | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | You not said here | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | You not said here | a bag | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | get | infinitive | You not said here | a pair of boots | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | boots not said here | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | scamper | may | I | the dirt and the brambles | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | shall | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | imagine | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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