The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 33

While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river, the Cat came up to the coach and told the King that, while his master was washing, there came by some rogues, who went off with his clothes, though he had cried out: “Thieves! thieves!” several times, as loud as he could.

Who acts: guards, Cat, master, rogues · What happens: draw, come up, tell, wash, come, go off · To what, where: poor Marquis, river, coach, that, King · 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 (guards, Cat, master, rogues), 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 drawing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drawing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawing	aux
4	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Marquis	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Marquis	amod
7	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drawing	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 river	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drawing	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cat	det
14	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 coach	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coach	det
19	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 told	iobj
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 told	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 washing	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 washing	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 washing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 washing	aux
30	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 told	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 came	expl
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	parataxis
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 rogues	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 rogues	det
36	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rogues	acl:relcl
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 went	compound:prt
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 clothes	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 clothes	nmod:poss
43	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	39 went	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cried	punct
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 cried	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cried	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 cried	aux
48	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 came	conj
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 cried	compound:prt
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 thieves	punct
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	52 Thieves	punct
52	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 thieves	compound
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 Thieves	punct
54	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	parataxis
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 thieves	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 thieves	punct
57	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 times	amod
58	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	obl:unmarked
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 loud	punct
60	as	as	ADV	_	61 loud	advmod
61	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 came	conj
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	64 could	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 could	nsubj
64	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 loud	advcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	guards = guard	the poor Marquis		the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent marquis=Theme out river=Initial_Location
2	come up	past	the Cat			the coach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to coach=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Cat not said here	that	the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient that=Topic
4	wash	past · progressive	King's master						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past				there	time	by some rogues	tree rules
6	go off	past	some rogues					with King's clothes	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
7	cry out speech: express	past · perfect	cat						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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