The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 41
“King’s son,” said the White Cat, “I beg you to spare me these compliments, for I am not used to them.
Who acts: son · What happens: say, beg, spare, not use · To what, where: White Cat, you, son, cats · 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 (son), 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 | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cat | det |
| 9 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cat | amod |
| 10 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beg | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beg | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | nsubj |
| 14 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spare | mark |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beg | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spare | obj |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 compliments | det |
| 20 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spare | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 used | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 used | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 used | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 used | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 used | advmod |
| 26 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beg | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 used | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King's son | the White Cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | King's son = son | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | King's son = son not said here | King's son = son | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient compliment=Asset | ||||
| 4 | not use in a quote | present · passive | King's son = son | cats = cat | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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