The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 42
In the meantime let us enjoy ourselves; to-night I have ordered a battle between my cats and the river rats on purpose to amuse you.”
Who acts: you, us, I · What happens: let, enjoy, order, amuse · To what, where: us, meantime, ourselves, battle, purpose, you
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 (you, us, I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obl |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 enjoy | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ordered | aux |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 let | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 battle | det |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 cats | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cats | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 battle | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rats | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rats | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rats | compound |
| 23 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cats | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 purpose | case |
| 25 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 amuse | mark |
| 27 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ordered | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 amuse | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | the meantime | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enjoy | infinitive | us not said here | ourselves | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ourselves=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | order | present · perfect | I | a battle | purpose | night | between my cats and the river rats | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | |
| 4 | amuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/42/