The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 16
A rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity.
Who acts: rash · What happens: jump, draw, close, take, kill · To what, where: Monsieur, bag, strings, Scarce
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 (rash), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rash | det |
| 2 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rabbit | cc |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rabbit | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rabbit | amod |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rash | conj |
| 7 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 7 jumped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Monsieur | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Monsieur | cc |
| 13 | Monsieur | Monsieur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | obl |
| 14 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Monsieur | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawing | punct |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 drawing | advmod |
| 17 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 jumped | advcl |
| 18 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 drawing | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 strings | det |
| 20 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 close | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jumped | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | obj |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 pity | case |
| 27 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | a rash and foolish young rabbit | Monsieur | Scarce's bag | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | a rash and foolish young rabbit not said here | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | close | infinitive | a rash and foolish young rabbit not said here | the strings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | kill | past | Scarce | without pity | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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