The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 22
“Your Majesty,” replied the Prince, “will find in that crystal chair a little white cat, which has such soft paws, and mews so prettily, that I am sure you will be charmed with it.”
Who acts: Majesty, little white cat · What happens: reply, find, have, be, charm · To what, where: Prince, crystal chair, such soft paws, you · 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 (Majesty, little white cat), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chair | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 chair | det |
| 15 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chair | amod |
| 16 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cat | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cat | amod |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cat | amod |
| 20 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chair | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 paws | amod |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 paws | amod |
| 26 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 has | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mews | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mews | cc |
| 29 | mews | mew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 paws | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 prettily | advmod |
| 31 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 23 has | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 sure | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 sure | nsubj |
| 35 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sure | cop |
| 36 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 has | parataxis |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 charmed | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 charmed | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 charmed | aux:pass |
| 40 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 sure | ccomp |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 charmed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Your Majesty | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | Your Majesty not said here | that crystal chair | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a little white cat | such soft paws and mews | prettily property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Your Majesty = majesty | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | charm in a quote | future · passive | you | with Majesty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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