The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 40
“Never mind,” she answered, “it’s just as well to try and deserve it.
Who acts: Madam · What happens: not mind, answer, try, deserve · To what, where: 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), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ’s | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ’s | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ’s | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deserve | cc |
| 18 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deserve | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Madam | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | Madam not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | deserve in a quote | infinitive | Madam not said here | fact | tree rules |
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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