The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 155

And the cat waited a few days, and then it caught a donkey, and they told the sultan, ‘Master, the cat has caught a donkey,’ and he said, ‘My cat and my donkey.’

Who acts: cat, owner, men · What happens: wait, catch, tell, say · To what, where: donkey, 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, men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 waited	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waited	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 caught	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 donkey	det
14	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sultan	det
20	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Master	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Master	punct
23	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sultan	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 caught	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 caught	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 caught	aux
28	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 waited	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 donkey	det
30	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 caught	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cat	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 cat	punct
38	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cat	nmod:poss
39	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	ccomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 donkey	cc
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 donkey	nmod:poss
42	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cat	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	past	the cat		day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	owner	a donkey	then	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	men = man	the sultan and Master		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient
4	catch	present · perfect	the cat	a donkey		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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