The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 14

He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching out at length, as if he had been dead, he waited for some young rabbits, not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world, to come and rummage his bag for what he had put into it.

Who acts: cat · What happens: put, stretch out, be, wait, not acquaint, come · To what, where: bran, bag, length, young rabbits

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thistle	cc
5	sow	sow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thistle	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sow	punct
7	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bran	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 bag	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bag	nmod:poss
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waited	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 waited	cc
13	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 waited	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 stretching	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stretching	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dead	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 dead	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 dead	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dead	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 dead	cop
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stretching	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stretching	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 waited	nsubj
26	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 rabbits	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 rabbits	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rabbits	amod
30	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 waited	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 acquainted	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 acquainted	advmod
33	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 acquainted	advmod
34	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 rabbits	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 deceits	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 deceits	det
37	deceits	deceit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 acquainted	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 deceits	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 come	punct
42	to	to	PART	_	43 come	mark
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 waited	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 rummage	cc
45	rummage	rummage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 come	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 bag	nmod:poss
47	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rummage	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 what	case
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 rummage	obl
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 put	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 put	aux
52	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 what	acl:relcl
53	into	into	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 put	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	cat	bran and sow thistle	cat's bag			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bran=Goal
2	stretch out	gerund	cat not said here		length			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	cat				dead property	tree rules
4	wait	past	cat				for some young rabbits	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not acquaint speech: other	participle		some young rabbits not said here		yet	with the deceits of the world	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
6	come	to-infinitive	cat not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rummage	infinitive	cat not said here	cat's bag				vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Location for what=Theme
8	put	past · perfect	cat		bag			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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