The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 49

The Cat, who had taken care to inform himself who this ogre was and what he could do, asked to speak with him, saying he could not pass so near his castle without having the honor of paying his respects to him.

Who acts: Cat, honor · What happens: take, inform, be, ask, speak, say · To what, where: care, cat, castle, honor, respects · 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 (Cat, honor), 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 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 taken	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Cat	acl:relcl
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 inform	mark
9	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 inform	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 do	nsubj
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 ogre	det
13	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	nsubj:outer
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 do	cop
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inform	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cat	punct
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 speak	mark
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speak	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 asked	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pass	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 pass	advmod
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 saying	ccomp
32	so	so	ADV	_	31 pass	advmod
33	near	near	ADP	_	35 castle	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 castle	nmod:poss
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pass	obl
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 having	mark
37	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 pass	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 honor	det
39	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 having	obj
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 paying	mark
41	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 honor	acl
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 respects	nmod:poss
43	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 paying	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 paying	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	the Cat	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here	cat				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	could · past					do property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Cat					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here				with cat	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the Cat not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not pass	could	cat			cat's castle		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near castle=Location
8	have	gerund	cat not said here	the honor				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Patient
9	pay	gerund	the honor not said here	cat's respects	cat			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset

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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