The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 69
Puss became a great lord, and never ran after mice any more but only for his diversion.
Who acts: Puss · What happens: become, not run, divert · To what, where: great lord
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 (Puss), 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 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lord | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lord | amod |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 ran | advmod |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 mice | case |
| 11 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ran | obl |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 ran | advmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 diversion | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 diversion | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 diversion | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 diversion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | diversion | diversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Puss | a great lord | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not run | past | Puss not said here | after mice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | divert | puss | nom diversion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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