The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 37
Seated in a gallery from which she could see his arrival, the White Cat waited for him.
Who acts: gallery, White Cat, successor · What happens: seat, see, wait, arrive · To what, where: gallery, arrival
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 (gallery, White Cat, successor), 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 | Seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 gallery | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gallery | det |
| 4 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seated | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 see | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gallery | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cat | det |
| 14 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cat | amod |
| 15 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | nsubj |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 arrival | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | a gallery | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in gallery=Location | |||||
| 2 | see | could | gallery | successor's arrival | a gallery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrival=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wait | past | the White Cat | successor's arrival not said here | for successor | tree rules | |||
| 4 | arrive | successor | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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