The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 58
“You see, Prince, that you were right in supposing me to be no ordinary cat.
Who acts: You · What happens: see, be, suppose · To what, where: Prince, princess, ordinary cat
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), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prince | punct |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 right | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 supposing | mark |
| 12 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 right | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 supposing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cat | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cat | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 cat | det |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cat | amod |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supposing | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | you | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | gerund | you not said here | princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | no ordinary cat | 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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