The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 59
My whole fortune depends upon it; and even if I could in such a short time find a dog pretty enough to gain me a kingdom, where should I find a horse who would carry me all that way in three days?”
Who acts: whole fortune, I, horse · What happens: depend, find, gain, carry · To what, where: dog, kingdom, me, horse · 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 (whole fortune, I, horse), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortune | amod |
| 3 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 depends | nsubj |
| 4 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 depends | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 could | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 could | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 time | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 depends | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 22 enough | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 find | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 gain | mark |
| 24 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 find | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 gain | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gain | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 find | advmod |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | aux |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 find | nsubj |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 horse | det |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | obj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 carry | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 carry | aux |
| 37 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 horse | acl:relcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 carry | obj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 way | det:predet |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 way | det |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 days | case |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 days | nummod |
| 44 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 carry | obl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | My whole fortune | upon memory | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | could | a dog | time | enough property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dog=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | gain | to-infinitive | a kingdom | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | should | I | a horse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 5 | carry | would | a horse | me | day | all way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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