The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 29

“White Cat, White Cat, are you making fun of me?”

Who acts: White Cat · What happens: make · To what, where: fun

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 (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	_	10 making	punct
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cat	punct
5	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Cat	amod
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Cat	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 making	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 making	nsubj
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fun	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · progressive	White Cat	fun of me					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product

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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