The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 200

But this time they had in their midst a huge black cat who seemed to be their king, and whom the young man guessed to be the Spirit of the Mountain.

Who acts: cats, huge black cat, young man · What happens: have, seem, be, guess · To what, where: midst, king, Spirit

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats, huge black cat, young man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 midst	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 midst	nmod:poss
8	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cat	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cat	amod
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 midst	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cat	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 king	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 king	cop
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 king	nmod:poss
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 guessed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 guessed	cc
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 guessed	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guessed	nsubj
25	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	29 Spirit	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 Spirit	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Spirit	det
29	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 guessed	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Mountain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Mountain	det
32	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Spirit	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cats = cat		cats's midst	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	a huge black cat					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	a huge black cat not said here	cats's king				tree rules
4	guess	past	the young man					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		the Spirit			of the Mountain	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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