The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 8
The Cat, who heard all this, but made as if he did not, said to him with a grave and serious air:
Who acts: Cat · What happens: hear, make, not do, say · To what, where: this, eldest · 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 (Cat), 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 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | advcl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 did | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cat | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 grave | det |
| 22 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 air | cc |
| 24 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 air | amod |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grave | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Cat | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the Cat not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | cat | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | eldest = eld | with a grave and serious air | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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