The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 42
“You see, sir,” said the Marquis, “this is a meadow which never fails to yield a plentiful harvest every year.”
Who acts: You, Marquis, this, meadow · What happens: see, say, be, not fail, yield · To what, where: sir, meadow, plentiful harvest · 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 (You, Marquis, this, 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Marquis | det |
| 10 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meadow | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 meadow | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 meadow | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 meadow | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meadow | det |
| 16 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Marquis | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fails | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 fails | advmod |
| 19 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 yield | mark |
| 21 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fails | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 harvest | det |
| 23 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 harvest | amod |
| 24 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yield | obj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yield | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | sir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Marquis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | a meadow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fail in a quote | present | a meadow | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | yield in a quote | to-infinitive | a meadow not said here | a plentiful harvest | year | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent harvest=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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