The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 51
“I have been assured,” said the Cat, “that you have the gift of being able to change yourself into all sorts of creatures you have a mind to; you can, for example, transform yourself into a lion, or elephant, and the like.”
Who acts: Cat, you, gift · What happens: assure, say, have, be, change, transform · To what, where: Cat, gift, yourself, sorts, mind, creatures · 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, you, gift), 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 | _ | 5 assured | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 assured | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 assured | aux:pass |
| 5 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assured | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 assured | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cat | det |
| 10 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 transform | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 transform | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 transform | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gift | det |
| 17 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 able | case |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gift | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 change | mark |
| 22 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 change | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sorts | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sorts | det |
| 26 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 change | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 creatures | case |
| 28 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sorts | nmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 mind | det |
| 32 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 have | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 can | punct |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 can | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 example | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 example | case |
| 39 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 41 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 42 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 transform | obj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 lion | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 lion | det |
| 45 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 transform | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 elephant | punct |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 elephant | cc |
| 48 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lion | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 like | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 like | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 like | det |
| 52 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Cat = cat | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | the gift | for example | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | gerund | the gift not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | change in a quote | to-infinitive | the gift not said here | yourself | into all sorts of creatures result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into sort=Result | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | you | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 7 | transform in a quote | infinitive | the Cat not said here | yourself | into a lion or elephant result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into lion=Result | |||
| 8 | sort in a quote | creatures | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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