The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 87
The cat seized it, and thought it would make them a good supper.
Who acts: cat, fish · What happens: seize, think, make · To what, where: fish, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cat, fish), 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 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 supper | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 supper | amod |
| 14 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the cat | fish | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the cat not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | would | fish | friends = friend | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary supper=Product |
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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