The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 61
But the White Cat said to him: “King’s son, do not trouble yourself; I am your friend, and will make everything easy for you.
Who acts: White Cat, son · What happens: say, do, be, make · To what, where: fortune, trouble, friend, everything · 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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cat | det |
| 3 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cat | amod |
| 4 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 son | acl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 trouble | advmod |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 do | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 friend | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 friend | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 easy | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the White Cat | fortune | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | King's son not said here | trouble | yourself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the White Cat = cat | your friend | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | the White Cat not said here | everything | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
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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