The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 5
The eldest had the mill, the second the ass, and the youngest nothing but the cat.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: have · To what, where: mill
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 (eldest), 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 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mill | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ass | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 second | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 ass | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ass | det |
| 10 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mill | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nothing | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 nothing | amod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 had | parataxis |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cat | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the eldest | the mill and the second ass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient |
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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