The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 37
The King would needs have him come into the coach and take part of the airing.
Who acts: King needs, King · What happens: have, come, take · To what, where: King, coach, part
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 needs, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 needs | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | compound |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 needs | aux |
| 4 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 coach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coach | det |
| 10 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 airing | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 airing | det |
| 16 | airing | airing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the King needs | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | King not said here | the coach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into coach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | King not said here | part of the airing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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