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English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 76

He then put her down on the queen's lap, where she purred and played with her majesty's hand, and then purred herself to sleep.

Who acts: captain, queen · What happens: put down, purr, play, sleep · To what, where: queen, lap

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

nsubjadvmodobjcompound:prtcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisccconjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodconjobjmarkadvclpunctrootHePRONthenADVputVERBherPRONdownADPonADPtheDETqueenNOUN'sPARTlapNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVshePRONpurredVERBandCCONJplayedVERBwithADPherPRONmajestyNOUN'sPARThandNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVpurredVERBherselfPRONtoPARTsleepVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 putnsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 putadvmod
3putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 putobj
5downdownADP_3 putcompound:prt
6ononADP_10 lapcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 queendet
8queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing10 lapnmod:poss
9's'sPART_8 queencase
10laplapNOUNNumber=Sing3 putobl
11,,PUNCT_14 purredpunct
12wherewhereADVPronType=Rel14 purredadvmod
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 purrednsubj
14purredpurrVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 putparataxis
15andandCCONJ_16 playedcc
16playedplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 purredconj
17withwithADP_21 handcase
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 majestynmod:poss
19majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing21 handnmod:poss
20's'sPART_19 majestycase
21handhandNOUNNumber=Sing16 playedobl
22,,PUNCT_25 purredpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 purredcc
24thenthenADVPronType=Dem25 purredadvmod
25purredpurrVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 purredconj
26herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes25 purredobj
27totoPART_28 sleepmark
28sleepsleepVERBVerbForm=Inf25 purredadvcl
29..PUNCT_3 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1put downpastcaptainqueenthe queen's lapthenvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on lap=Destination
2purrpastqueenvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3playpastqueen not said herewith queen's majesty's handvn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme
4purrpastqueen not said herequeenthenvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
5sleepto-infinitivequeen not said herevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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