The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 35
It was conducted by two cats wearing black mantles and carrying swords, and a large party of cats followed, who brought in cages full of rats and mice.
Who acts: two cats, large party · What happens: conduct, wear, carry, follow, bring · To what, where: figure, black mantles, swords, cages
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 cats, large party), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | aux:pass |
| 3 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 cats | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cats | nummod |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 conducted | obl |
| 7 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cats | acl |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mantles | amod |
| 9 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wearing | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | cc |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wearing | conj |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carrying | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 party | amod |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cats | case |
| 19 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 party | nmod |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 followed | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cages | case |
| 25 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brought | obj |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cages | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rats | case |
| 28 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mice | cc |
| 30 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rats | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · passive | two cats | figure | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | two cats not said here | black mantles | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | two cats not said here | swords | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | a large party of cats | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | past | cages | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cage=Theme |
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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