The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 29
While he was washing the King passed by, and the Cat began to cry out:
Who acts: cat · What happens: wash, pass by, begin, cry out · To what, where: 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 (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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 washing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 washing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washing | aux |
| 4 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 washing | obj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cat | det |
| 12 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cry | mark |
| 15 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cry | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · progressive | cat | the King | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass by | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Cat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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