The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 6
The poor young fellow was quite comfortless at having so poor a lot.
Who acts: poor young fellow · What happens: be, have · To what, where: lot
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 (poor young fellow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comfortless | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 comfortless | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 comfortless | advmod |
| 7 | comfortless | comfortless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 comfortless | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 poor | advmod |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 having | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lot | det |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comfortless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor young fellow | comfortless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the poor young fellow not said here | a lot | poor property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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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