The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 35

The Prince considered that he had earned the kingdom fairly twice over but still he was too well bred to argue about it, so he just went back to his gorgeous chariot, and, surrounded by his escort, returned to the White Cat faster than he had come.

Who acts: Prince, successor · What happens: consider, earn, breed, argue, go back, surround · To what, where: kingdom, successor

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 (Prince, successor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 considered	nsubj
3	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 earned	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 earned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 earned	aux
7	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 considered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 earned	obj
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	7 earned	advmod
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 over	advmod
12	over	over	ADV	_	7 earned	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bred	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	19 bred	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bred	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bred	aux:pass
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 bred	advmod
19	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 earned	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 argue	mark
21	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bred	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 argue	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 chariot	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 chariot	nmod:poss
32	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chariot	amod
33	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 surrounded	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 surrounded	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 surrounded	punct
37	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 considered	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 escort	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 escort	nmod:poss
40	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 surrounded	obl:agent
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 returned	punct
42	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 Cat	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Cat	det
45	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Cat	amod
46	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 returned	obl
47	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 returned	advmod
48	than	than	SCONJ	_	51 come	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 come	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 come	aux
51	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 faster	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past	the Prince				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	earn	past · perfect	successor	the kingdom		fairly, over property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
3	breed	past · passive		successor	still	well property	tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive				about kingdom	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	go back	past	successor			to successor's gorgeous chariot result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chariot=Result
6	surround	participle	the Prince not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	return	past	the Prince not said here			to the White Cat result; fast property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cat=Result
8	come	past · perfect	successor				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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