The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 46
“To my Lord Marquis of Carabas,” replied the reapers, and the King was very well pleased with it, as well as the Marquis, whom he congratulated thereupon.
Who acts: reapers, King, Marquis · What happens: reply, be, congratulate · To what, where: Lord Marquis
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 (reapers, King, Marquis), 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 replied | 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 replied | 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 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reapers | det |
| 12 | reapers | reaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleased | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pleased | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pleased | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 congratulated | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 32 congratulated | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Marquis | det |
| 28 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 congratulated | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 congratulated | punct |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 congratulated | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 congratulated | nsubj |
| 32 | congratulated | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 33 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 32 congratulated | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the reapers | my Lord Marquis of Carabas | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marquis=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | with small; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | congratulate | past | the Marquis | thereupon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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