The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 48

Days go by so quickly when one is very happy that it is certain the Prince would never have thought of its being time to go back, when one evening as they sat together the White Cat said to him that if he wanted to take a lovely princess home with him the next day he must be prepared to do what she told him.

Who acts: Days, one, path, Prince, White Cat, fairy · What happens: go, be, not think, go back, sit, say · To what, where: Prince, fairy, lovely princess, next day · 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 (Days, one, path, Prince), 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	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 so	case
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 go	obl
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 happy	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 happy	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 happy	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 happy	advmod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 certain	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 certain	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 certain	cop
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 happy	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 thought	nsubj:pass
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 thought	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	aux
20	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 certain	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 time	cop
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 time	acl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 sat	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 evening	nummod
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl:unmarked
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 sat	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	parataxis
35	together	together	ADV	_	34 sat	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Cat	det
37	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Cat	amod
38	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sat	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	obl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 wanted	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 wanted	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wanted	nsubj
45	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 said	ccomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 take	mark
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 wanted	xcomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 princess	det
49	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 princess	amod
50	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obj
51	home	home	ADV	_	47 take	advmod
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 take	obl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 day	det
55	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 day	amod
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obl:unmarked
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 prepared	nsubj
58	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 prepared	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 prepared	cop
60	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 day	acl:relcl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 do	mark
62	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 prepared	xcomp
63	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	65 told	obj
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 told	nsubj
65	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 do	advcl
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 told	iobj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Days				quickly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by so=Location
2	is	present	one				happy property	tree rules
3	is	present	path				certain property	tree rules
4	not think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		the Prince				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	gerund				of path's time		tree rules
6	go back	to-infinitive						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	sit	past	Prince			evening	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	past	the White Cat		fairy			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
9	want a condition, not said to happen	past	fairy					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	fairy not said here		a lovely princess	day	with fairy; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
11	is	must	fairy	the next day not said here			prepared property	tree rules
12	do	to-infinitive	fairy not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	tell speech: assert	past	Cat		fairy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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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