The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 38

The Cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and, meeting with some countrymen, who were mowing a meadow, he said to them:

Who acts: Cat, countrymen · What happens: overjoy, see, begin, succeed, march, meet · To what, where: Cat, project, meadow, countrymen · 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 (Cat, countrymen), 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	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begin	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 overjoyed	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 overjoyed	advmod
5	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Cat	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overjoyed	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 project	nmod:poss
9	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 succeed	mark
12	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begin	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marched	punct
14	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 succeed	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 before	case
16	before	before	ADV	_	14 marched	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meeting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 meeting	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meeting	punct
20	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 begin	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 countrymen	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 countrymen	det
23	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meeting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mowing	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 mowing	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mowing	aux
27	mowing	mow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 countrymen	acl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 meadow	det
29	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mowing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begin	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	overjoy	participle		the Cat not said here			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		cat's project			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer project=Stimulus
3	begin	present	the Cat				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	succeed	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here				tree rules
5	march	participle	the Cat not said here			before property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	meet	gerund	the Cat not said here			with some countrymen	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with countryman=Co-Agent
7	mow	past · progressive	some countrymen	a meadow			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient
8	say speech: assert	past	cat		countrymen = countryman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
9	project		cat				nom project «act transitive»: poss=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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