The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 30
In an instant he felt a cat’s claw give his hand quite a sharp scratch, and hoping that it was meant as an encouragement he opened the millet seed, and drew out of it a piece of muslin four hundred ells long, woven with the loveliest colors and most wonderful patterns; and when the needle was brought it went through the eye six times with the greatest ease!
Who acts: King, claw, needle · What happens: feel, give, hope, mean, open, draw out · To what, where: instant, hand, claw, millet seed, piece, needle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, claw, needle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 cat | case |
| 9 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 scratch | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scratch | det |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scratch | amod |
| 16 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hoping | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hoping | cc |
| 19 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 felt | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 meant | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 meant | aux:pass |
| 23 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hoping | acl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 encouragement | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 encouragement | det |
| 26 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meant | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 opened | nsubj |
| 28 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 encouragement | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seed | det |
| 30 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seed | compound |
| 31 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 opened | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 drew | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drew | cc |
| 34 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 drew | obl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 piece | det |
| 39 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drew | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 muslin | case |
| 41 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 piece | nmod |
| 42 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 hundred | compound |
| 43 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 ells | nummod |
| 44 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 long | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 muslin | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 woven | punct |
| 47 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 piece | acl |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 colors | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 colors | det |
| 50 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 51 colors | amod |
| 51 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 woven | obl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 patterns | cc |
| 53 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 54 wonderful | advmod |
| 54 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 patterns | amod |
| 55 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 colors | conj |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 brought | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 brought | cc |
| 58 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 62 brought | advmod |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 needle | det |
| 60 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 61 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 brought | aux:pass |
| 62 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 went | advcl |
| 63 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 went | nsubj |
| 64 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | parataxis |
| 65 | through | through | ADP | _ | 67 eye | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 eye | det |
| 67 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 went | obl |
| 68 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 69 times | nummod |
| 69 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 went | obl:unmarked |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 73 ease | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 ease | det |
| 72 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 73 ease | amod |
| 73 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 went | obl |
| 74 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | King | a instant | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a cat's claw | King's hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient scratch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | King not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | mean | past · passive | claw | as a encouragement | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as encouragement=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | open | past | King | the millet seed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme | ||||
| 6 | draw out | past | King not said here | claw | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent piece=Beneficiary it=Result | ||||
| 7 | weave | participle | a piece of muslin not said here | with the loveliest colors and wonderful patterns | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bring | past · passive | the needle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 9 | go | past | needle | the eye | time | with the greatest ease | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through eye=Initial_Location |
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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