The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 23
The king, in like manner, received the partridges with great pleasure, and ordered him some money for drink.
Who acts: king · What happens: receive, order · To what, where: partridges, money, King
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 received | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 manner | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 manner | case |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 manner | case |
| 6 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 partridges | det |
| 10 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 received | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pleasure | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pleasure | amod |
| 13 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 partridges | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 received | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | obj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 money | det |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 drink | case |
| 21 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 money | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the king and manner | the partridges | with great pleasure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | past | some money | King | for drink | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary money=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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