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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

detnsubjapposcasedetoblpunctcaseoblnsubjauxaux:passadvcladvmodcasenmod:possamodobldetobl:unmarkedpunctccadvmodnsubjadvmodparataxisccamodcompound:prtdetobjccconjpunctmarkfixeddetamodnsubjauxadvmodconjcaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootThisDETcatNOUNWhittingtonPROPNconcealedVERBinADPtheDETgarretNOUN,PUNCTforADPfearNOUNshePRONshouldAUXbeAUXbeatVERBaboutADVbyADPhisPRONmortalADJenemyNOUNtheDETcookNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhereADVshePRONsoonADVkilledVERBorCCONJfrightenedVERBawayADPtheDETratsNOUNandCCONJmiceNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJtheDETpoorADJboyNOUNcouldAUXnowADVsleepVERBasADPsoundNOUNasADPaDETtopNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 catdet
2catcatNOUNNumber=Sing4 concealednsubj
3WhittingtonWhittingtonPROPNNumber=Sing2 catappos
4concealedconcealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ininADP_7 garretcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 garretdet
7garretgarretNOUNNumber=Sing4 concealedobl
8,,PUNCT_14 beatpunct
9forforADP_10 fearcase
10fearfearNOUNNumber=Sing14 beatobl
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 beatnsubj
12shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 beataux
13bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf14 beataux:pass
14beatbeatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 concealedadvcl
15aboutaboutADV_14 beatadvmod
16bybyADP_19 enemycase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 enemynmod:poss
18mortalmortalADJDegree=Pos19 enemyamod
19enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing14 beatobl
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 cookdet
21cookcookNOUNNumber=Sing14 beatobl:unmarked
22,,PUNCT_27 killedpunct
23andandCCONJ_27 killedcc
24herehereADVPronType=Dem27 killedadvmod
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 killednsubj
26soonsoonADVDegree=Pos27 killedadvmod
27killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 concealedparataxis
28ororCCONJ_29 frightenedcc
29frightenedfrightenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass32 ratsamod
30awayawayADP_29 frightenedcompound:prt
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 ratsdet
32ratsratNOUNNumber=Plur27 killedobj
33andandCCONJ_34 micecc
34micemouseNOUNNumber=Plur32 ratsconj
35,,PUNCT_43 sleeppunct
36sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ43 sleepmark
37thatthatSCONJ_36 sofixed
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 boydet
39poorpoorADJDegree=Pos40 boyamod
40boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing43 sleepnsubj
41couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin43 sleepaux
42nownowADVPronType=Dem43 sleepadvmod
43sleepsleepVERBVerbForm=Inf27 killedconj
44asasADP_45 soundcase
45soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing43 sleepobl
46asasADP_48 topcase
47aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 topdet
48toptopNOUNNumber=Sing43 sleepobl
49..PUNCT_4 concealedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1concealpastthis catthe garretvn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in garret=Location
2beat aboutshould · passiveWhittington's mortal enemycatfor fear; the cook obl:unmarked; about propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
3killpastcatthe frightened rats and miceheresoon propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
4frighten awayparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5sleepcouldthe poor boynowas sound; as a topvn 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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