The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 48

After supper they went into another room, which was fitted up as a theatre, and the cats acted and danced for their amusement, and then the White Cat said good-night to him, and the hands conducted him into a room he had not seen before, hung with tapestry worked with butterflies’ wings of every color; there were mirrors that reached from the ceiling to the floor, and a little white bed with curtains of gauze tied up with ribbons.

Who acts: cats, White Cat, hands, sight, mirrors · What happens: go, fit up, act, dance, say, conduct · To what, where: little white bed, room, sight, tapestry, ceiling, gauze · 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 (cats, White Cat, hands, sight), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fitted	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fitted	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fitted	aux:pass
11	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 room	acl:relcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 fitted	compound:prt
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 theatre	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 theatre	det
15	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fitted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 acted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 acted	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cats	det
19	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 acted	nsubj
20	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 danced	cc
22	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 acted	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 amusement	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 amusement	nmod:poss
25	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 danced	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 said	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Cat	det
30	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Cat	amod
31	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 night	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 good	punct
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl:unmarked
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 conducted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 conducted	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hands	det
41	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 conducted	nsubj
42	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 conducted	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 room	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 room	det
46	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 seen	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 seen	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 seen	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 seen	advmod
50	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 conducted	parataxis
51	before	before	ADV	_	50 seen	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hung	punct
53	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 seen	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 tapestry	case
55	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 hung	obl
56	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 tapestry	acl
57	with	with	ADP	_	60 wings	case
58	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 wings	nmod:poss
59	’	's	PART	_	58 butterflies	case
60	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 worked	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 color	case
62	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	63 color	det
63	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wings	nmod
64	;	;	PUNCT	_	66 were	punct
65	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	66 were	expl
66	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
67	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 were	nsubj
68	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 reached	nsubj
69	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 mirrors	acl:relcl
70	from	from	ADP	_	72 ceiling	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 ceiling	det
72	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 reached	obl
73	to	to	ADP	_	75 floor	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 floor	det
75	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 reached	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 bed	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 bed	cc
78	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	81 bed	det
79	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 bed	amod
80	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 bed	amod
81	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
82	with	with	ADP	_	83 curtains	case
83	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 bed	nmod
84	of	of	ADP	_	85 gauze	case
85	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 curtains	nmod
86	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	85 gauze	acl
87	up	up	ADP	_	86 tied	compound:prt
88	with	with	ADP	_	89 ribbons	case
89	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 tied	obl
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	cats = cat	a little white bed with curtains of gauze		another room	after supper		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	fit up	past · passive		another room				as a theatre	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	act	past	the cats						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dance	past	the cats not said here					for cats's amusement	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the White Cat		sight		then; night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	conduct	past	the hands	sight					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	not see	past · perfect	sight			a room		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	hang	participle	sight not said here					with tapestry	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	work	participle		tapestry not said here				with butterflies's wings of every color	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=Co-Agent
10	be	past	mirrors			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	reach	past	mirrors			the ceiling		to the floor	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	tie up	participle		gauze not said here				with ribbons	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with ribbon=Co-Patient
13	amuse		cats = cat						nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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