The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 15

A little further on he came upon a cat, which someone was going to put to death.

Who acts: father, cat · What happens: come, go, put

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 further	obl
3	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 came	advmod
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 going	nsubj
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	father	upon a cat; far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon cat=Location
2	go	past · progressive	a cat		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	to-infinitive	a cat not said here	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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