The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 7
“My brothers,” said he, “may get their living handsomely enough by joining their stocks together; but for my part, when I have eaten up my cat, and made me a muff of his skin, I must die of hunger.”
Who acts: brothers, eldest · What happens: say, get, join, eat up, make, die · To what, where: living, stocks, cat, muff, brothers · 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 (brothers, eldest), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 he | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 living | nmod:poss |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 handsomely | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 joining | mark |
| 17 | joining | join | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 get | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stocks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stocks | stock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 joining | obj |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 joining | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 eaten | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 eaten | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 part | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 part | nmod:poss |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eaten | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 eaten | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 eaten | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 eaten | aux |
| 30 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 eaten | compound:prt |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eaten | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 muff | det |
| 39 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 skin | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 skin | nmod:poss |
| 42 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 muff | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 die | punct |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 die | nsubj |
| 45 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 die | aux |
| 46 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 made | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 hunger | case |
| 48 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 die | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | may | eldest = eld | brothers's living | handsomely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | join in a quote | gerund | eldest = eld not said here | brothers's stocks | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Patient | |||
| 4 | eat up in a quote | present · perfect | My brothers = brother | my cat | for my part | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | past | a muff of eldest's skin | My brothers = brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary muff=Product | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | must | My brothers = brother | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | brothers = brother | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | stock in a quote | brothers = brother | nom stock «possession 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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