The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 39
“Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King that the meadow you mow belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot.”
Who acts: Good people, you, meadow · What happens: mow, not tell, belong, chop · To what, where: King, meadow, Lord Marquis, you · 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 (Good people, you, meadow), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mowing | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mowing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 people | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 mowing | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mowing | aux |
| 8 | mowing | mow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mowing | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 belongs | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meadow | det |
| 19 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belongs | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 mow | nsubj |
| 21 | mow | mow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Marquis | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Marquis | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Marquis | compound |
| 26 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 belongs | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Carabas | case |
| 28 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Marquis | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 chopped | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 chopped | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 chopped | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 chopped | aux:pass |
| 33 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mowing | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 small | case |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 chopped | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 herbs | case |
| 37 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 chopped | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 pot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pot | det |
| 40 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chopped | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mowing | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mow in a quote | present · progressive | Good people you | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mow in a quote | present | you | the meadow not said here | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | belong in a quote | present | the meadow | my Lord Marquis of Carabas | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chop in a quote | shall · passive | you | as small; as herbs; for the pot | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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