The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 8

The King took a long step, and quite thought he had the tail under his foot, but the cat turned round so sharply that he only trod on air.

Who acts: King, cat · What happens: take, think, have, turn round, tread · To what, where: long step, tail, foot, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 step	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 thought	advmod
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tail	det
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 foot	nmod:poss
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 sharply	advmod
25	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 trod	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	nsubj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 trod	advmod
29	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 air	case
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trod	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the King	a long step			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the King not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	king	the tail	king's foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	turn round	past	the cat			round, sharply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	tread	past	king		air		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory

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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