The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 41
“To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” answered they altogether, for the Cat’s threats had made them terribly afraid.
What happens: answer, make · To what, where: people, Lord Marquis, threats
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 Marquis | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Marquis | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Marquis | compound |
| 5 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Carabas | case |
| 7 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Marquis | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Marquis | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Marquis | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cat | det |
| 16 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Cat | case |
| 18 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 answered | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obj |
| 22 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 23 afraid | advmod |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 made | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | people | my Lord Marquis of Carabas | altogether property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | the Cat's threats | afraid property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product |
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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