The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 75

“So the old fairy led her into the castle, and, though it was still the middle of the night, the Queen could see plainly that it was far more beautiful than she had been told, which you can easily believe, Prince,” said the White Cat, “when I tell you that it was this castle that we are now in.

Who acts: old fairy, castle, Queen, you, White Cat, we · What happens: lead, be, see, tell, believe, say · To what, where: condition, castle, middle, Queen, Prince, 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 (old fairy, castle, Queen, 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	_	6 led	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	6 led	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairy	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fairy	amod
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	nsubj
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 led	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 middle	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 middle	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 middle	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 middle	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	19 middle	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 middle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 middle	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 led	conj
28	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	27 see	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 beautiful	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 beautiful	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 beautiful	cop
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 beautiful	advmod
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 said	advcl
35	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 told	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 told	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 told	aux:pass
39	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 beautiful	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 believe	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 believe	obj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 believe	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 believe	aux
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	45 believe	advmod
45	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 told	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Prince	punct
47	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 believe	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 believe	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 beautiful	punct
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Cat	det
52	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Cat	amod
53	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 said	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 tell	punct
55	“	"	PUNCT	_	58 tell	punct
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 tell	advmod
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 tell	nsubj
58	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 said	ccomp
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 tell	iobj
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 castle	mark
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 castle	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 castle	cop
63	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	64 castle	det
64	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tell	ccomp
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 in	mark
66	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 in	nsubj
67	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 in	cop
68	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 in	advmod
69	in	in	ADV	_	64 castle	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead in a quote	past	the old fairy	condition		the castle			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into castle=Destination
2	is a in a quote	past	castle	the middle			still; night		tree rules
3	see in a quote	could	the Queen					plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	past	castle					beautiful property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · perfect · passive		Queen					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	believe in a quote	can	you	Prince				easily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme prince=Eventuality
7	say speech: assert	past	the White Cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the White Cat = cat		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
9	is a in a quote	past	castle	this castle					tree rules
10	is in a quote	present	we				now	in property	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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