The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 13

As soon as he had bought a pretty one he was sure to see a still prettier, and then he had to get rid of all the others and buy that one, as, being alone, he found it impossible to take thirty or forty thousand dogs about with him.

Who acts: two · What happens: buy, be, see, have, get, find · To what, where: pretty one, prettier, one, dog, thousand dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bought	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 bought	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bought	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bought	aux
6	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sure	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sure	cop
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prettier	det
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 prettier	advmod
17	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 see	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 had	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bought	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
25	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 get	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 others	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 others	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 others	det
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rid	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 buy	cc
31	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 get	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 one	mark
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 buy	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 as	punct
35	as	as	ADP	_	31 buy	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 alone	punct
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 alone	cop
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 get	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 found	nsubj
41	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 found	obj
43	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 found	xcomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 take	mark
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 found	ccomp
46	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 thousand	compound
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 forty	cc
48	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 thirty	conj
49	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 dogs	nummod
50	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 take	obj
51	about	about	ADV	_	45 take	advmod
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 take	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · perfect	two	a pretty one			soon property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	is	past	two	a pretty one not said here			sure property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	two not said here	a prettier				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	two			then		tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	two not said here				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	buy	infinitive	two not said here	one				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	is	gerund					alone property	tree rules
8	find	past	two	dog			impossible property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
9	take	to-infinitive			thousand dogs		with two; about property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination

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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