The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 154

Two days after, the cat caught a cow, and the sultan was told, ‘Master, the cat has caught a cow,’ but he only said, ‘It was my cow and my cat.’

Who acts: cat, owner · What happens: catch, tell, say, be · To what, where: cow, sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, owner), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 caught	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 days	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sultan	det
13	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 caught	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Master	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Master	punct
18	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	aux
23	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 caught	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 said	advmod
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cow	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 cow	punct
34	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cow	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 cow	cop
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cow	nmod:poss
37	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cat	cc
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cat	nmod:poss
40	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cow	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	catch	past	the cat	a cow	day	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	catch	present · perfect	the cat	a cow		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	owner	my cow and my cat		tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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