English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 42
All the company laughed at Dick's odd venture; and Miss Alice, who felt pity for him, gave him some money to buy another cat.
Who acts: company, Miss, Dick · What happens: laugh, feel, give, buy, venture · To what, where: odd venture, pity, money, Dick, cat
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, Miss, Dick), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 company | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 venture | case |
| 6 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 venture | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Dick | case |
| 8 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 venture | amod |
| 9 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Miss | cc |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | parataxis |
| 17 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 felt | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 money | det |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 buy | mark |
| 26 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gave | advcl |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 cat | det |
| 28 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buy | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | all company | Dick's odd venture | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Miss | pity | for Dick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for he=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | Miss not said here | some money | Dick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | Miss not said here | another cat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | venture | Dick | nom venture «act intransitive»: poss=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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