The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 22
He went and made a present of these to the king, as he had done before of the rabbit which he took in the warren.
Who acts: master, rabbit · What happens: go, make, do, take · To what, where: present, warren
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 (master, rabbit), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 these | case |
| 8 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 present | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 made | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 rabbit | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rabbit | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rabbit | det |
| 20 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 took | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 warren | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 warren | det |
| 26 | warren | warren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | master | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | master not said here | a present of these | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Product | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | master | before the rabbit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the rabbit | the warren | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in warren=Location |
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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