The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 39

“Madam,” said he, “thanks to your generosity I have earned one twice over; but the fact is that my father is so loth to part with it that it would be no pleasure to me to take it.”

Who acts: Madam, son, fact · What happens: say, thanks, earn, be, take · To what, where: one, pleasure, Madam, fact · 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 (Madam, son, fact), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thanks	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thanks	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 thanks	punct
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 generosity	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 generosity	nmod:poss
12	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thanks	nmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 earned	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 earned	aux
15	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thanks	acl:relcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 earned	obj
17	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 over	advmod
18	over	over	ADV	_	15 earned	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 loth	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 loth	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fact	det
22	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loth	nsubj:outer
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 loth	cop
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 loth	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loth	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 loth	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 loth	advmod
29	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 part	mark
31	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loth	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 part	nmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 pleasure	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pleasure	expl
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 pleasure	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 pleasure	cop
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 pleasure	det
39	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loth	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 pleasure	nmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 take	mark
43	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 loth	csubj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 take	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Madam				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thanks in a quote		son			to your generosity	tree rules
3	earn in a quote	present · perfect	Madam	one		over property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the fact			loth property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	would	the fact not said here	no pleasure	Madam		tree rules
6	take in a quote	to-infinitive		fact			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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