The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 52

The White Cat herself was riding a monkey, which climbed even up to the eagles’ nests when she had a fancy for the young eaglets.

Who acts: White Cat, monkey · What happens: ride, climb, have · To what, where: monkey, nests, fancy

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 (White Cat, monkey), 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	3 Cat	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riding	nsubj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 Cat	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 riding	aux
6	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riding	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 climbed	nsubj
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 monkey	acl:relcl
12	even	even	ADV	_	18 nests	advmod
13	up	up	ADP	_	18 nests	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 nests	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eagles	det
16	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nests	nmod:poss
17	’	's	PART	_	16 eagles	case
18	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climbed	obl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 had	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 climbed	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fancy	det
23	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 eaglets	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eaglets	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eaglets	amod
27	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 riding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	the White Cat kind	a monkey			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme
2	climb	past	a monkey		the eagles's nests		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up nest=Trajectory
3	have	past	monkey	a fancy		for the young eaglets	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=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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