The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 1
“As they laid me under the enchantment the fairies told me all my history, for until then I had quite believed that I was their child, and warned me that my only chance of regaining my natural form was to win the love of a prince who resembled in every way my unfortunate lover.
Who acts: they, fairies, I, only chance, prince, my · What happens: lay, tell, believe, be, warn, regain · To what, where: me, enchantment, history, child, natural form, unfortunate lover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, fairies, I, only chance), 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 | _ | 4 laid | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 laid | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 enchantment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enchantment | det |
| 8 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairies | det |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 history | det:predet |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 history | nmod:poss |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 believed | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 believed | mark |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 19 then | case |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 believed | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 believed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 believed | aux |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 believed | advmod |
| 23 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 child | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 child | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 child | cop |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 child | nmod:poss |
| 28 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 believed | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 warned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 warned | cc |
| 31 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 warned | obj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 win | mark |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 chance | nmod:poss |
| 35 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 chance | amod |
| 36 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 win | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 regaining | mark |
| 38 | regaining | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 chance | acl |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 form | nmod:poss |
| 40 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 form | amod |
| 41 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 regaining | obj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 win | cop |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 win | mark |
| 44 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 warned | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 love | det |
| 46 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 win | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 prince | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 prince | det |
| 49 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 love | nmod |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 resembled | nsubj |
| 51 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 prince | acl:relcl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 way | case |
| 53 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 way | det |
| 54 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 resembled | obl |
| 55 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 lover | nmod:poss |
| 56 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 lover | amod |
| 57 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 resembled | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | past | they | me | the enchantment | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under enchantment=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the fairies | my history | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient history=Topic | |||
| 3 | believe in a quote | past · perfect | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | I | fairies's child | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | warn speech: warn in a quote | past | the fairies not said here | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | regain in a quote | gerund | my only chance not said here | my natural form | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | my only chance | win property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | resemble in a quote | past | a prince | my unfortunate lover | every way | tree rules | |||
| 9 | chance in a quote | my | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | form in a quote | my | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | love in a quote | a prince | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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