The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 31
My Lord Marquis of Carabas is going to be drowned.”
Who acts: Lord Marquis · What happens: go, drown
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 (Lord Marquis), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Marquis | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marquis | compound |
| 3 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Carabas | case |
| 5 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marquis | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drowned | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drowned | aux:pass |
| 10 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 going | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | My Lord Marquis of Carabas | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drown | to-infinitive · passive | My Lord Marquis of Carabas not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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