The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 52
“I entreat you to do as I tell you, King’s son,” she replied.
Who acts: Blanchette · What happens: entreat, do, tell, reply · To what, where: you · 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 (Blanchette), 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 entreat | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entreat | nsubj |
| 3 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 entreat | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreat | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreat | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat in a quote | infinitive | Blanchette | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Blanchette not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Blanchette | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Blanchette | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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