The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 5

And so the days passed quickly as before; it was impossible to feel dull with the White Cat, and she had quite a talent for inventing new amusements--indeed, she was cleverer than a cat has any right to be.

Who acts: days, Cat · What happens: pass, be, feel, have, invent · To what, where: talent, new amusements, right

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 (days, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 passed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 passed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 impossible	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 impossible	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 impossible	cop
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feel	mark
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 impossible	csubj
15	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 Cat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cat	det
18	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Cat	amod
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dull	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
24	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	26 talent	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 talent	det
26	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 inventing	mark
28	inventing	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 had	advcl
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 amusements	amod
30	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 inventing	obj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 amusements	punct
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 inventing	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cleverer	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cleverer	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cleverer	cop
36	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 passed	parataxis
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	40 has	mark
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cat	det
39	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 has	nsubj
40	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cleverer	advcl
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 right	det
42	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 has	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 be	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 right	acl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the days		quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the days not said here		impossible property	tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive			dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	Cat	quite talent		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient
5	invent	gerund	Cat not said here	new amusements	indeed property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Result
6	is	past	Cat		clever property	tree rules
7	have	present	a cat	any right		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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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