The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 39
“Lady Cat,” replied the Prince, “I thank you for receiving me so kindly, but surely you are no ordinary pussy-cat?
Who acts: Lady Cat, you · What happens: reply, thank, receive, cat · To what, where: Prince, you, Lady 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 (Lady Cat, you), 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 | _ | 3 Cat | punct |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | compound |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cat | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cat | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thank | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thank | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thank | nsubj |
| 12 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thank | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 receiving | mark |
| 15 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thank | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 receiving | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 kindly | advmod |
| 18 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 receiving | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cat | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 cat | cc |
| 21 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 28 cat | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 cat | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 cat | aux |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 cat | det |
| 25 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cat | amod |
| 26 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cat | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 pussy | punct |
| 28 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Lady Cat | the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Lady Cat = cat | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive in a quote | gerund | Lady Cat = cat not said here | Lady Cat = cat | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | cat in a quote | present | you | surely property | tree rules |
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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