The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 70

He wanted to take it out and look at it, but the White Cat said it would be better not to open the acorn till he was before the King, in case the tiny dog should be cold on the journey.

Who acts: Bow, White Cat, it, tiny dog · What happens: want, take out, look, say, be, not open · To what, where: dog, acorn, case, journey · 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 (Bow, White Cat, it, tiny dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cat	det
14	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cat	amod
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 better	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 better	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	cop
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 said	ccomp
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 open	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 open	mark
23	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 acorn	det
25	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 open	obj
26	till	till	ADP	_	31 King	case
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 King	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 King	cop
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 King	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 open	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 case	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 case	case
34	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 open	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dog	amod
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cold	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 cold	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 cold	cop
40	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 case	acl:relcl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 journey	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 journey	det
43	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cold	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Bow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bow not said here	dog				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	look	infinitive	Bow not said here				at dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the White Cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	it				good property	tree rules
6	not open	to-infinitive		the acorn	case			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme in case=Location
7	is	past	Bow			till the King		tree rules
8	is	should	the tiny dog	case not said here	the journey		cold 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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