The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 7
“King’s son, do not ask me; guess what you please.
Who acts: son · What happens: not ask, guess · To what, where: 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 (son), 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 | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | advmod |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 guess | punct |
| 11 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 guess | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 guess | discourse |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive · do-support | King's son | Cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | guess not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | King's son not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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