The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 28
The Marquis of Carabas did what the Cat advised him to, without knowing why or wherefore.
Who acts: Marquis, Cat · What happens: do, advise, know · To what, where: Marquis
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 (Marquis, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Marquis | det |
| 2 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Carabas | case |
| 4 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marquis | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cat | det |
| 8 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 advised | nsubj |
| 9 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advised | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 advised | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowing | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 knowing | mark |
| 14 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 did | advcl |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 knowing | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wherefore | cc |
| 17 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 why | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Marquis of Carabas | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the Cat | Marquis | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | the Marquis of Carabas not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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