The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 20

“Tell thy master,” said the king, “that I thank him and that he does me a great deal of pleasure.”

Who acts: king, master · What happens: tell, say, thank, do, deal · To what, where: master, great deal, king, pleasure · 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 (king, master), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thank	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 thank	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 thank	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 thank	nsubj
14	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 king	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thank	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 does	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 does	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 does	nsubj
19	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thank	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 does	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 deal	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deal	amod
23	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 does	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pleasure	case
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deal	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thank	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		thy master		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the king = king		master	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	do in a quote	present	master	a great deal of pleasure	the king = king	tree rules
5	deal in a quote			pleasure		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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