The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 32
At this noise the King put his head out of the coach-window, and, finding it was the Cat who had so often brought him such good game, he commanded his guards to run immediately to the assistance of his Lordship the Marquis of Carabas.
Who acts: King, head, Cat · What happens: put, find, be, bring, command, run · To what, where: head, noise, Cat, such good game, King, guards · 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 (King, head, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 noise | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 noise | det |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 window | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 coach | punct |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 finding | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 18 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 put | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Cat | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Cat | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cat | det |
| 22 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finding | ccomp |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 brought | advmod |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 brought | advmod |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 game | amod |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 game | amod |
| 31 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 commanded | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 commanded | nsubj |
| 34 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 guards | nmod:poss |
| 36 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 commanded | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 run | mark |
| 38 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 commanded | advcl |
| 39 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 38 run | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 assistance | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 assistance | det |
| 42 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 run | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Lordship | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 Lordship | nmod:poss |
| 45 | Lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 assistance | nmod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Marquis | det |
| 47 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Lordship | appos |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Carabas | case |
| 49 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Marquis | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the King | King's head | this noise | out the coach window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at noise=Destination | ||
| 2 | find | gerund | the King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | head | the Cat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | the Cat | such good game | King | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination game=Theme | ||
| 5 | command | past | King | King's guards | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent guard=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | run | to-infinitive | King not said here | to the assistance of King's Lordship result; immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to assistance=Result | ||||
| 7 | assist | King's Lordship | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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