The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 18
He was shown upstairs into the King’s apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him:
What happens: show, make, say · To what, where: Proud, apartment, low reverence · 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: 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 | 3 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 shown | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 apartment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 reverence | det |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reverence | amod |
| 16 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | Proud | the King's apartment | upstairs property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into apartment=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | a low reverence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reverence=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Proud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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