The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 56

“Impossible!” cried the ogre; “you shall see that presently.”

Who acts: ogre, you · What happens: cry, see · To what, where: that · 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 (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	_	2 Impossible	punct
2	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Impossible	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ogre	det
7	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Impossible	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 see	obj
14	presently	presently	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the ogre						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	shall	you	that				presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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