The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 53

Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him that he immediately got into the gutter, not without abundance of trouble and danger, because of his boots, which were of no use at all to him in walking upon the tiles.

Who acts: Puss, ogre, boots, use · What happens: be, get, walk, sight · To what, where: sight, gutter, ogre, all, tiles, lion

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 (Puss, ogre, boots, use), 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	Puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 terrified	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 terrified	advmod
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 terrified	advmod
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 terrified	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 lion	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lion	det
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 him	advmod
13	near	near	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 got	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 gutter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gutter	det
21	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 abundance	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 abundance	advmod
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 abundance	case
25	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gutter	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 trouble	case
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 abundance	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 danger	cc
29	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trouble	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 boots	punct
31	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 boots	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 because	fixed
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 boots	nmod:poss
34	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 terrified	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 use	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 use	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 use	cop
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 use	case
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 use	det
40	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 boots	acl:relcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 use	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 use	nmod
45	in	in	SCONJ	_	46 walking	mark
46	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 use	acl
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 tiles	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 tiles	det
49	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 walking	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Puss			the sight of a lion	near ogre; sadly, terrified property	tree rules
2	get	past	ogre			the gutter and abundance of trouble and danger	immediately property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into gutter=Destination
3	is	past	ogre's boots		ogre	all	of no use	tree rules
4	walk	gerund	no use not said here			the tiles		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tile=Trajectory
5	sight			a lion				nom sight «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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