The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 9

The Prince was so happy that he did not trouble himself at all about the time, but presently the White Cat told him that the year was gone, and that he need not be at all anxious about the piece of muslin, as they had made it very well.

Who acts: Prince, son, White Cat, year · What happens: be, do, tell, not be, make · To what, where: trouble, son, all · 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, son, White Cat, year), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 did	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	advcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 trouble	advmod
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 trouble	nmod:unmarked
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 time	case
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 time	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
19	presently	presently	ADV	_	23 told	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cat	det
21	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Cat	amod
22	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 gone	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gone	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 told	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 anxious	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 anxious	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 anxious	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 anxious	nsubj
34	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 anxious	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 anxious	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 anxious	cop
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 anxious	obl
39	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gone	conj
40	about	about	ADP	_	42 piece	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 piece	det
42	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 anxious	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 muslin	case
44	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 piece	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 made	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 made	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 made	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 made	aux
49	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 gone	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 made	obj
51	very	very	ADV	_	52 well	advmod
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 made	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince					happy property	tree rules
2	do	past	son	trouble son			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	the White Cat		son			presently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	the year					gone property	tree rules
5	not is	present	son			all		about the piece of muslin; anxious property	tree rules
6	make	past · perfect	Prince	trouble				well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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