English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 75

However, when the captain stroked the cat and called: “Pussy, pussy,” the queen also touched her and cried: “Putty, putty,” for she had not learned English.

Who acts: captain, queen · What happens: stroke, call, touch, cry, not learn · To what, where: cat, creature, Putty, English · Speech: someone speaks here

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, queen), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 stroked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stroked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroked	nsubj
6	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroked	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stroked	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Pussy	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Pussy	punct
13	Pussy	pussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pussy	punct
15	pussy	pussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Pussy	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touched	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 touched	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touched	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 touched	advmod
21	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stroked	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touched	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 touched	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Putty	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Putty	punct
27	Putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 putty	punct
29	putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Putty	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Putty	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Putty	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 learned	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 learned	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 learned	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 learned	advmod
36	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 cried	advcl
37	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 learned	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stroked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stroke	past	the captain	the cat	however property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer
2	call	past	the captain not said here		pussy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	the queen	creature		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	the queen not said here	Putty and putty		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not learn	past · perfect	queen	English		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic

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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