The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 68
The Marquis, making several low bows, accepted the honor which his Majesty conferred upon him, and forthwith, that very same day, married the Princess.
Who acts: Marquis, Majesty · What happens: make, accept, confer, marry · To what, where: several low bows, honor, Princess
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 (Marquis, Majesty), 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 | 2 Marquis | det |
| 2 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Marquis | acl |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bows | amod |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bows | amod |
| 7 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 making | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marquis | punct |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 honor | det |
| 11 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 conferred | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 conferred | nsubj |
| 15 | conferred | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 honor | acl:relcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conferred | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forthwith | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forthwith | cc |
| 20 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 accepted | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 day | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 same | advmod |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forthwith | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 married | punct |
| 27 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 accepted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 married | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the Marquis not said here | several low bows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | the Marquis | the honor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | confer | past | Marquis's Majesty | the honor | upon Marquis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry | past | the Marquis not said here | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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