The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 47

The Master Cat, who went always before, said the same words to all he met, and the King was astonished at the vast estates of my Lord Marquis of Carabas.

Who acts: Master Cat, cat · What happens: go, say, meet, astonish · To what, where: same words, all, King, vast estates · 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, 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	10 said	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	3 Cat	acl:relcl
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 before	advmod
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Cat	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 words	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 words	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 all	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 astonished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 astonished	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 astonished	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 astonished	aux:pass
23	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 estates	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 estates	det
26	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 estates	amod
27	estates	estate	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 astonished	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Marquis	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Marquis	nmod:poss
30	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Marquis	compound
31	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 estates	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Carabas	case
33	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Marquis	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Master Cat				before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Master Cat	the same words	all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to all=Recipient
3	meet	past	cat					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	astonish	past · passive		the King		the vast estates of my Lord Marquis of Carabas		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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