The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 40
The King did not fail asking of the mowers to whom the meadow they were mowing belonged.
Who acts: King · What happens: not fail, ask, belong · To what, where: meadow
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), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fail | advmod |
| 5 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fail | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mowers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mowers | det |
| 9 | mowers | mower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asking | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 asking | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meadow | det |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belonged | nsubj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belonged | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 belonged | aux:pass |
| 16 | mowing | mow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 belonged | aux:pass |
| 17 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | past · do-support | the King | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the King not said here | of the mowers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of mower=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | belong | past · passive | the meadow | 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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