The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 63

“I thank you, beautiful Cat,” said the Prince; “but what good will it do me to get back if I have not a dog to take to my father?”

Who acts: Prince, country · What happens: thank, say, do, get back, have, take · To what, where: beautiful Cat, you, Prince, dog · 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 (Prince, country), 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 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Cat	punct
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Cat	amod
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 do	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 what	amod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 do	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	advcl
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 get	advcl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 dog	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dog	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 father	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the Prince = prince	beautiful Cat	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	future	country		the Prince = prince		tree rules
4	get back in a quote	to-infinitive	country not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the Prince = prince	a dog			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
6	take in a quote	to-infinitive	the Prince = prince not said here	a dog not said here		to my father result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result

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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