The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 54

A little while after, when Puss saw that the ogre had resumed his natural form, he came down, and owned he had been very much frightened.

Who acts: little while, ogre · What happens: see, resume, come down, own, be, form · To what, where: ogre · 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 (little while, ogre), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj:outer
4	after	after	ADV	_	3 while	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	Puss	Puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 resumed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ogre	det
11	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resumed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 resumed	aux
13	resumed	resume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 resumed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	parataxis
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 owned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 owned	cc
23	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 frightened	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 frightened	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 frightened	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 frightened	advmod
29	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 owned	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	a little while			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	resume	past · perfect · passive		the ogre		tree rules
3	come down	past	ogre		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	own	past	ogre not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past · perfect · passive		ogre	frightened property	tree rules
6	form		ogre			nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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