The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 34
This cunning Cat had hidden them under a great stone.
What happens: hide · To what, where: cunning Cat, great stone
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Cat | det |
| 2 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hidden | obj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stone | amod |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect · passive | this cunning Cat | a great stone | tree rules |
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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