The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 95

As for me, the fairies, furious at having their plans defeated, for they intended me to marry the king of the dwarfs, and I utterly refused, changed me into a white cat.

Who acts: plans, I, ladders · What happens: have, defeat, intend, marry, refuse, change · To what, where: plans, me, king

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 (plans, I, ladders), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fairies	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairies	det
6	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 me	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 furious	punct
8	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fairies	parataxis
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 furious	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plans	nmod:poss
12	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 having	obj
13	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 having	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 intended	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 intended	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 intended	nsubj
17	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 furious	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 intended	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 intended	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 dwarfs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dwarfs	det
25	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 refused	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 refused	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 refused	nsubj
29	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	30 refused	advmod
30	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 intended	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 changed	punct
32	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 refused	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 changed	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 cat	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cat	det
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cat	amod
37	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 changed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		ladders's plans		tree rules
2	defeat	participle	ladders's plans not said here			tree rules
3	intend	past	plans = plan	me		tree rules
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	plans = plan not said here	the king of the dwarfs		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
5	refuse	past	I		utterly property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	change	past	I not said here	me	into a white cat result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into cat=Result
7	plan		ladders = ladder			nom plan «cognition transitive»: 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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