The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 66

White Cat dear,” said the Prince, “how unkind you are to laugh at me now!”

Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: say, be · 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, you), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Cat	amod
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dear	obl:unmarked
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 unkind	advmod
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 laugh	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 laugh	mark
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 unkind	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	obl
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 laugh	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 laugh	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	you				now	at me; laugh property	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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