The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 64

“See here,” answered the White Cat, holding up an acorn; “there is a prettier one in this than in the Dogstar!”

Who acts: White Cat · What happens: see, answer, hold up, be · To what, where: acorn, prettier one, this · 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), 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 one	nsubj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 See	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 See	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
8	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Cat	amod
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holding	punct
11	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 holding	compound:prt
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 acorn	det
14	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 one	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 this	case
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 one	nmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 Dogstar	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 Dogstar	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Dogstar	det
27	Dogstar	Dogstar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Dogstar	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Dogstar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	infinitive			here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	answer speech: express	past	the White Cat				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold up	gerund	the White Cat not said here	a acorn			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acorn=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present		a prettier one	this	than the Dogstar	tree rules

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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