The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 11
The Cat’s master did not build very much upon what he said.
Who acts: master · What happens: not build, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Cat | case |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 build | advmod |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 build | advmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 build | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not build | past · do-support | the Cat's master | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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