The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 33
“Nothing could console me more in my old age than to realize your willingness to gratify my wishes.
Who acts: my · What happens: realize, gratify, wish · To what, where: willingness, wishes · 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 (my), 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 | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 console | compound |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 console | aux |
| 4 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | nsubj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 console | nmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 age | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 age | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 age | amod |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 realize | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 realize | mark |
| 13 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 more | advcl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 willingness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | willingness | willingness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 realize | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 gratify | mark |
| 17 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 realize | csubj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gratify | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize in a quote | to-infinitive | your willingness | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer willingness=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gratify in a quote | to-infinitive | my wishes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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