The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 38
“King’s son, you are welcome; the Queen of the Cats is glad to see you.”
Who acts: son, Queen · What happens: be, see · To what, where: you
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 (son, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcome | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 welcome | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcome | cop |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 glad | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cats | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cats | det |
| 14 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Queen | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | cop |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 welcome | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glad | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | King's son | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Queen of the Cats | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Queen of the Cats not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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: «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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