The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 50
When he looked out all the cats were assembled in the courtyard, some leading greyhounds, some blowing horns, for the White Cat was going out hunting.
Who acts: sight, White Cat · What happens: look out, assemble, lead, go out · To what, where: cats, courtyard, hunting
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, White 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assembled | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 cats | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cats | det |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assembled | aux:pass |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtyard | det |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 greyhounds | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 greyhounds | det |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 greyhounds | amod |
| 16 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 courtyard | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 horns | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 horns | det |
| 19 | blowing | blowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horns | amod |
| 20 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 courtyard | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 going | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Cat | det |
| 24 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Cat | amod |
| 25 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 assembled | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 going | compound:prt |
| 29 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | sight | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | all cats | the courtyard and some leading greyhounds and some blowing horns | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | go out | past · progressive | the White Cat | hunting | tree rules |
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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