The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 17
Proud of his prey, he went with it to the palace and asked to speak with his majesty.
Who acts: Proud · What happens: go, ask, speak · To what, where: palace · 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 (Proud), 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 | Proud | Proud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 prey | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 prey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Proud | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proud | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 majesty | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speak | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Proud of Proud's prey | the palace | with prey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Proud of Proud's prey not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Proud of Proud's prey not said here | with Proud's majesty | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with majesty=Co-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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