The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 25

One day in particular, when he knew for certain that he was to take the air along the river-side, with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world, he said to his master:

Who acts: cat · What happens: know, be, say · To what, where: master · 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 (cat), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 particular	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 particular	case
4	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 knew	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 particular	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 certain	case
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knew	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 take	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 take	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knew	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	along	along	ADP	_	22 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 river	punct
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 daughter	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 princess	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 beautiful	advmod
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 princess	amod
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 princess	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 particular	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 master	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 master	nmod:poss
40	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	obl
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 particular	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	cat		for certain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	past	cat		along the river side; with cat's daughter; the beautiful princess in the world obl; take property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	cat	cat's master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient

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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