The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 52
“That is true,” answered the ogre very briskly; “and to convince you, you shall see me now become a lion.”
Who acts: That, ogre, you · What happens: be, answer, convince, see, become · To what, where: you, Cat, lion · 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 (That, ogre, you), 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 | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 briskly | advmod |
| 11 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 convince | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 convince | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 convince | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 convince | mark |
| 16 | convince | convince | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 convince | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 convince | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 become | advmod |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lion | det |
| 26 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the ogre | briskly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | convince in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | shall | you | the Cat = cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | become in a quote | present | you not said here | a lion | now | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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