The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 6

But when the Prince asked her how it was that she was so wise, she only said:

Who acts: Prince, Cat · What happens: ask, be, say · To what, where: Cat · 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 (Prince, Cat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wise	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wise	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wise	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wise	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wise	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wise	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 wise	advmod
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 asked	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince	Cat		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	Cat		wise property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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