The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 43

The Master Cat, who went still on before, met with some reapers, and said to them:

Who acts: Master Cat · What happens: go, meet, say · To what, where: reapers · 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 (Master Cat), 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	3 Cat	det
2	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	compound
3	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 on	advmod
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 reapers	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 reapers	det
14	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 met	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Master Cat		before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	the Master Cat not said here		with some reapers	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reaper=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Master Cat not said here	reapers = reaper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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