The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 47

The White Cat sighed as he looked at it, and seemed sadder than ever, and the Prince dared not ask any questions for fear of displeasing her; so he began to talk about other things, and found that she was interested in all the subjects he cared for himself, and seemed to know quite well what was going on in the world.

Who acts: White Cat, sight, Prince, fear, kind · What happens: sigh, look, seem, ask, displease, begin · To what, where: questions, kind, subjects, world · 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 (White Cat, sight, Prince, fear), 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	3 Cat	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sighed	nsubj
4	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 looked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	parataxis
13	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 seemed	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 ever	case
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 sadder	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ask	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ask	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ask	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dared	advmod
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	parataxis
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 questions	det
24	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ask	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 fear	case
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ask	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 displeasing	mark
28	displeasing	displease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 fear	acl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 displeasing	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 began	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 talk	mark
35	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 things	case
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 talk	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 found	cc
41	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	parataxis
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 interested	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 interested	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 interested	cop
45	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 found	ccomp
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 subjects	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 subjects	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 subjects	det
49	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 interested	obl
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 cared	nsubj
51	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 subjects	acl:relcl
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 himself	case
53	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 cared	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 seemed	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 seemed	cc
56	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sighed	parataxis
57	to	to	PART	_	58 know	mark
58	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 seemed	xcomp
59	quite	quite	ADV	_	60 well	advmod
60	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 know	advmod
61	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	63 going	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 going	aux
63	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 know	ccomp
64	on	on	ADP	_	63 going	compound:prt
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 world	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 world	det
67	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 going	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	the White Cat				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	sight			at portrait	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	seem	past				sad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince	any questions		for fear	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
5	displease	gerund	fear not said here	kind			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	begin	past	sight				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	talk	to-infinitive	sight not said here			about other things	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic
8	find	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	kind		all subjects	interested property	tree rules
10	care	past	sight	all subjects not said here		for sight	tree rules
11	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
12	know	to-infinitive				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
13	go on	past · progressive			the world		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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