The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 50
Upon which the factor called “Pussy, pussy, pussy!” and she came to him.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: call, come · To what, where: factor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 factor | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 factor | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 factor | det |
| 4 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 factor | acl |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pussy | punct |
| 7 | Pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pussy | punct |
| 9 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Pussy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pussy | punct |
| 11 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Pussy | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pussy | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 factor | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the factor not said here | pussy property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Queen | factor | upon the factor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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