The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 48
He immediately put down Miss Puss, who killed a great number of them.
Who acts: dinner, Miss · What happens: put down, kill · To what, where: Miss, great number
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 (dinner, Miss), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Miss | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Miss | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | dinner | Miss | immediately property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miss=Goal | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Miss | a great number of rats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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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