The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 65
They passed into a spacious hall, where they found a magnificent collation, which the ogre had prepared for his friends, who were that very day to visit him, but dared not to enter, knowing the King was there.
Who acts: lands, friends · What happens: pass, find, prepare, be, visit, dare · To what, where: spacious hall, magnificent collation, day, ogre, King · 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 (lands, friends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hall | amod |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 collation | det |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 collation | amod |
| 13 | collation | collation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ogre | det |
| 17 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 prepared | aux |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 collation | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 friends | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friends | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 prepared | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 day | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 day | cop |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 day | mark |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 day | advmod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | acl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 visit | mark |
| 30 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 day | acl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 visit | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dared | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 dared | cc |
| 34 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 enter | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 enter | mark |
| 37 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 dared | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 knowing | punct |
| 39 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 dared | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 King | det |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 knowing | obj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 there | cop |
| 43 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 knowing | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | lands = land | a spacious hall | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | lands = land | a magnificent collation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collation=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | a magnificent collation | for ogre's friends | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for friend=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | ogre's friends | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | ogre | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | dare | past | lands = land not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not enter | to-infinitive | lands = land not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | know | gerund | lands = land not said here | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | is | past | there property | tree rules |
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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