The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 63
There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it; let us go into it, if you please.”
Who acts: nothing, stately buildings, us · What happens: be, surround, let, go · To what, where: castle, us
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 (nothing, stately buildings, us), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 be | nsubj |
| 5 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finer | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 buildings | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 buildings | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 buildings | det |
| 12 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 buildings | amod |
| 13 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 court | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 surround | nsubj |
| 15 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 buildings | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 surround | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | parataxis |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 please | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 please | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 please | nsubj |
| 26 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 18 let | discourse |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | present | all stately buildings | castle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | us not said here | castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location |
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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