The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 45

Presently he noticed that on the little paw that was next him the White Cat wore a bracelet containing a portrait, and he begged to be allowed to look at it.

Who acts: sight, that, bracelet · What happens: notice, be, wear, contain, beg, allow · To what, where: sight, bracelet, little paw, portrait · 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 (sight, that, bracelet), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 noticed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wore	mark
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 paw	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paw	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paw	amod
8	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wore	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 him	cop
11	next	next	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 paw	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cat	det
14	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cat	amod
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	nsubj
16	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bracelet	det
18	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wore	obj
19	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 bracelet	acl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 portrait	det
21	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 containing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 begged	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 begged	nsubj
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 allowed	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 allowed	aux:pass
28	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 begged	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 allowed	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	sight			presently property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is a	past	that	sight		next property	tree rules
3	wear	past		a bracelet	the little paw		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme
4	contain	gerund	a bracelet not said here	a portrait			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot portrait=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	sight				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
7	look not said to happen	to-infinitive				at portrait	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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