The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 36

The Prince was so much astonished that he thought he must be dreaming, but the little figure came up to him and threw back its veil, and he saw that it was the loveliest little white cat it is possible to imagine.

Who acts: Prince, party, little figure, figure, it · What happens: be, think, dream, come up, throw back, see · To what, where: party, veil, loveliest little white cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, party, little figure, figure), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 astonished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dreaming	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dreaming	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dreaming	aux
13	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 figure	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 figure	amod
18	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 threw	cc
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 threw	advmod
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 veil	nmod:poss
27	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 cat	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cat	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cat	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cat	det
36	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 cat	amod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cat	amod
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cat	amod
39	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	ccomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 possible	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 possible	cop
42	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cat	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 imagine	mark
44	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 possible	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince			astonish property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	party				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dream	must · progressive	party				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	come up	past	the little figure		party		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	throw back	past	the little figure not said here	figure's veil			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
6	see	past	party				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	figure	the loveliest little white cat			tree rules
8	is	present	it	the loveliest little white cat not said here		possible property	tree rules
9	imagine	to-infinitive					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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