The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 13

When the Cat had what he asked for he booted himself very gallantly, and putting his bag about his neck, he held the strings of it in his two forepaws and went into a warren where was great abundance of rabbits.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: have, ask, boot, put, hold, go · To what, where: cat, bag, strings, two forepaws, warren, great abundance · 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 (Cat), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 held	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 had	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 booted	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 booted	nsubj
10	booted	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	ccomp
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 booted	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 gallantly	advmod
13	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	_	10 booted	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 putting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 putting	cc
16	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bag	nmod:poss
18	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 putting	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neck	nmod:poss
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 putting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 strings	det
26	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 held	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 strings	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 forepaws	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 forepaws	nmod:poss
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 forepaws	nummod
32	forepaws	forepaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 held	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 held	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 warren	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 warren	det
37	warren	warren	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 abundance	advmod
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 abundance	cop
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 abundance	amod
41	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 warren	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 rabbits	case
43	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 abundance	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Cat				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	cat				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	boot	past	cat	cat		gallantly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	put	gerund	the Cat not said here	cat's bag		about cat's neck	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme about neck=Destination
5	hold	past	cat	the strings of bag	cat's two forepaws		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent string=Theme in forepaw=Location
6	go	past	cat not said here		a warren		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into warren=Initial_Location
7	is a	past		great abundance		of rabbits	tree rules

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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