The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 45
The King, who passed by a moment after, would needs know to whom all that corn, which he then saw, did belong.
Who acts: King, needs, corn · What happens: pass, know, see, belong · To what, where: corn
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, needs, corn), 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 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | after | after | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 know | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 corn | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 corn | det |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whom | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 saw | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 saw | advmod |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 corn | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 belong | punct |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 belong | aux |
| 26 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saw | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the King | moment | after property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | would | needs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | past | corn | all corn | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | belong | past · do-support | all corn not said here | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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