The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 10
“This time,” she added, “I can give you a suitable escort”; and on looking out into the courtyard the Prince saw a superb chariot of burnished gold, enameled in flame color with a thousand different devices.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: add, give, look out, see, burnish, enamel · To what, where: suitable escort, you, Prince, courtyard, superb chariot, flame color · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 added | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 added | nsubj |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 added | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 escort | det |
| 15 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 escort | amod |
| 16 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 looking | mark |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 saw | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 looking | compound:prt |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 courtyard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 courtyard | det |
| 25 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 looking | obj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 chariot | det |
| 30 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chariot | amod |
| 31 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 33 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 gold | amod |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chariot | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 enameled | punct |
| 36 | enameled | enamel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 color | case |
| 38 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 color | compound |
| 39 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 enameled | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 devices | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 thousand | det |
| 42 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 devices | nummod |
| 43 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 devices | amod |
| 44 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 color | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Cat | time | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | can | Cat | a suitable escort | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient escort=Theme | |||
| 3 | look out | gerund | the Prince | the courtyard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Cat not said here | a superb chariot of burnished gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | burnish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | enamel | participle | Cat not said here | flame color with thousand different devices | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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