English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 69
He put Puss under his arm, and arrived at the place just in time to see the table full of rats.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: put, arrive, see · To what, where: Puss, arm, place, table
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 (dinner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 table | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rats | case |
| 22 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | dinner | Puss | dinner's arm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent puss=Theme under arm=Destination | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | dinner not said here | the place | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | the table | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
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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