English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 65
The captain, who knew his business, took this opportunity to set forth the merits of Miss Puss.
Who acts: captain · What happens: know, take, set · To what, where: business, opportunity, merits
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 (captain), 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 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 captain | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 business | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 captain | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 opportunity | det |
| 11 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 opportunity | acl |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merits | det |
| 16 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Miss | case |
| 18 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 merits | nmod |
| 19 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Miss | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the captain | captain's business | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the captain | this opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | the captain not said here | the merits of Miss | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient merit=Result |
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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