The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 91
You can imagine that I was delighted to have some one new to talk to, and in spite of the height of my window our conversation was prolonged till night fell, then my prince reluctantly bade me farewell.
Who acts: You, I, night, prince, our · What happens: imagine, be, have, talk, prolong, fall · To what, where: conversation, spite, me, height
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 (You, I, night, prince), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 delighted | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 new | nsubj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 new | nummod |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 have | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 new | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 talk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 prolonged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 prolonged | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spite | case |
| 19 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 prolonged | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 height | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 height | det |
| 22 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spite | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 window | nmod:poss |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 height | nmod |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 27 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 prolonged | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 prolonged | aux:pass |
| 29 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 fell | mark |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 prolonged | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bade | punct |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 bade | advmod |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 prince | nmod:poss |
| 36 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bade | nsubj |
| 37 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 38 bade | advmod |
| 38 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | obl |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 bade | obj |
| 40 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 32 fell | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | prolong | past · passive | our conversation | spite of the height of my window | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | night | farewell property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bade | my prince | me | then | reluctantly property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | spite | the height of my window | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | converse | our | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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