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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 53

The tears came into the Prince’s eyes as he begged her to ask him anything but that--to set him any task she pleased as a proof of his devotion, but to spare him the grief of killing his dear Pussy.

Who acts: tears, son, grief · What happens: come, beg, ask, set, spare, kill · To what, where: eyes, Blanchette, anything, son, dear Pussy, devotion

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 (tears, son, grief), 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

detnsubjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblmarknsubjadvclobjmarkxcompobjobjccnmodpunctmarkconjobjdetnsubjnsubjparataxiscasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccmarkconjobjdetobjmarkaclnmod:possamodobjpunctrootTheDETtearsNOUNcameVERBintoADPtheDETPrincePROPN’sPARTeyesNOUNasSCONJhePRONbeggedVERBherPRONtoPARTaskVERBhimPRONanythingPRONbutCCONJthatPRON--PUNCTtoPARTsetVERBhimPRONanyDETtaskNOUNshePRONpleasedADJasADPaDETproofNOUNofADPhisPRONdevotionNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtoPARTspareVERBhimPRONtheDETgriefNOUNofSCONJkillingVERBhisPRONdearADJPussyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 tearsdet
2tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4intointoADP_8 eyescase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Princedet
6PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing8 eyesnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 Princecase
8eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur3 cameobl
9asasSCONJ_11 beggedmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 beggednsubj
11beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 cameadvcl
12hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 beggedobj
13totoPART_14 askmark
14askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf11 beggedxcomp
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 askobj
16anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind14 askobj
17butbutCCONJ_18 thatcc
18thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem16 anythingnmod
19----PUNCT_21 setpunct
20totoPART_21 setmark
21setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf14 askconj
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 setobj
23anyanyDETPronType=Ind24 taskdet
24tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing26 pleasednsubj
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 pleasednsubj
26pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Pos21 setparataxis
27asasADP_29 proofcase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 proofdet
29proofproofNOUNNumber=Sing26 pleasedobl
30ofofADP_32 devotioncase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 devotionnmod:poss
32devotiondevotionNOUNNumber=Sing29 proofnmod
33,,PUNCT_36 sparepunct
34butbutCCONJ_36 sparecc
35totoPART_36 sparemark
36sparespareVERBVerbForm=Inf3 cameconj
37himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 spareobj
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 griefdet
39griefgriefNOUNNumber=Sing36 spareobj
40ofofSCONJ_41 killingmark
41killingkillVERBVerbForm=Ger39 griefacl
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 Pussynmod:poss
43deardearADJDegree=Pos44 Pussyamod
44PussypussyNOUNNumber=Sing41 killingobj
45..PUNCT_3 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe tearsthe Prince's eyesvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
2beg speech: requestpastsonBlanchettevn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3ask speech: ask not said to happento-infinitiveson not said hereanythingsontree rules
4setto-infinitiveson not said heresonvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
5spareto-infinitivethe tears not said heresonvn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grief=Asset
6killgerundthe grief not said hereson's dear Pussyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pussy=Theme
7proofson's devotionnom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8devotesonnom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=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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