The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 57
And at the same time he changed himself into a mouse, and began to run about the floor.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: change, begin, run · To what, where: ogre
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 changed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 changed | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mouse | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | ogre | ogre | time | into a mouse result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into mouse=Result | ||
| 2 | begin | past | ogre not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | ogre not said here | about the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about floor=Trajectory |
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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