The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 77

“‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Queen; ‘that will be something quite new.’

Who acts: White Cat, ‘, that · What happens: beg, let, see, come, call, cry · To what, where: you, White Cat, ‘, Queen · 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 (White Cat, ‘, that), 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	_	18 cried	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 beg	nsubj
4	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	parataxis
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 beg	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beg	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 called	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 come	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
22	‘	‘	ADP	_	26 something	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 something	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 something	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 something	cop
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 cried	obl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 new	advmod
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 something	amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	the White Cat = cat		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	let in a quote	to-infinitive	the White Cat = cat not said here	the White Cat = cat			tree rules
3	see in a quote	infinitive	the White Cat = cat not said here	‘			tree rules
4	come in a quote	infinitive	‘ not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call in a quote	present · passive		‘			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the Queen			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic
7	is in a quote	future	that			‘ something	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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