The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 32

The Prince was wondering who the second place could be for, when suddenly in came about a dozen cats carrying guitars and rolls of music, who took their places at one end of the room, and under the direction of a cat who beat time with a roll of paper began to mew in every imaginable key, and to draw their claws across the strings of the guitars, making the strangest kind of music that could be heard.

Who acts: Prince, dozen cats, guitars, cat · What happens: wonder, come about, carry, take, beat, begin · To what, where: dozen cats, guitars, places, one end, direction, imaginable key

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 (Prince, dozen cats, guitars, 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wondering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wondering	aux
4	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wondering	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 who	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 for	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 for	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	8 place	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 came	case
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 place	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 dozen	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dozen	det
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cats	nummod
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	obj
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 cats	acl
22	guitars	guitar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carrying	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rolls	cc
24	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 guitars	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 music	case
26	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolls	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 guitars	parataxis
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 places	nmod:poss
31	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 took	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 end	nummod
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 room	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 room	det
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 began	cc
40	under	under	ADP	_	42 direction	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 direction	det
42	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 began	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 cat	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 cat	det
45	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 direction	nmod
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 beat	nsubj
47	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 cat	acl:relcl
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 beat	obj
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 roll	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 roll	det
51	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 beat	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 paper	case
53	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 roll	nmod
54	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 mew	mark
56	mew	mew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 began	xcomp
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 key	case
58	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	60 key	det
59	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 key	amod
60	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mew	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 draw	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 draw	cc
63	to	to	PART	_	64 draw	mark
64	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 mew	conj
65	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 claws	nmod:poss
66	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 draw	obj
67	across	across	ADP	_	69 strings	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 strings	det
69	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 draw	obl
70	of	of	ADP	_	72 guitars	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 guitars	det
72	guitars	guitar	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 strings	nmod
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 making	punct
74	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 draw	advcl
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 kind	det
76	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	77 kind	amod
77	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 making	obj
78	of	of	ADP	_	79 music	case
79	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 kind	nmod
80	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	83 heard	nsubj:pass
81	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	83 heard	aux
82	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	83 heard	aux:pass
83	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	77 kind	acl:relcl
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wondering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	the Prince					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	come about	past		dozen cats			suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme
3	carry	gerund	dozen cats not said here	guitars and rolls of music				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme
4	take	past	guitars and rolls of music	Princes's places		at one end of the room		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at end=Asset
5	beat	past	a cat			time	with a roll of paper	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with roll=Theme
6	begin	past			the direction of a cat			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	mew	to-infinitive			every imaginable key			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	draw	to-infinitive		Princes's claws	the strings of the guitars			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme
9	make	gerund		the strangest kind of music				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product
10	hear	could · passive		the strangest kind of music				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
11	roll			music				nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient
12	roll			paper				nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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