The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 20
This cat Whittington concealed in the garret, for fear she should be beat about by his mortal enemy the cook, and here she soon killed or frightened away the rats and mice, so that the poor boy could now sleep as sound as a top.
Who acts: cat, mortal enemy, poor boy · What happens: conceal, beat about, kill, frighten away, sleep · To what, where: garret, cat, frightened rats
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, mortal enemy, poor boy), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concealed | nsubj |
| 3 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cat | appos |
| 4 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garret | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garret | det |
| 7 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concealed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fear | case |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beat | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 beat | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beat | aux:pass |
| 14 | beat | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 concealed | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 beat | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 enemy | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enemy | amod |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cook | det |
| 21 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 killed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 killed | cc |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 killed | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 killed | advmod |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 concealed | parataxis |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 frightened | cc |
| 29 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 rats | amod |
| 30 | away | away | ADP | _ | 29 frightened | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rats | det |
| 32 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 killed | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mice | cc |
| 34 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rats | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sleep | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 sleep | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boy | det |
| 39 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 boy | amod |
| 40 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sleep | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 sleep | aux |
| 42 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 sleep | advmod |
| 43 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 killed | conj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 sound | case |
| 45 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sleep | obl |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 top | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 top | det |
| 48 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sleep | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | this cat | the garret | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in garret=Location | ||||
| 2 | beat about | should · passive | Whittington's mortal enemy | cat | for fear; the cook obl:unmarked; about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | cat | the frightened rats and mice | here | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||
| 4 | frighten away | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | sleep | could | the poor boy | now | as sound; as a top | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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