The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 4
“And mine too,” cried the Prince, throwing himself at her feet, “if you will consent to marry me.”
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: cry, throw, consent, marry · To what, where: prince, feet · 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 (Prince, you), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mine | cc |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 mine | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mine | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mine | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 throwing | punct |
| 11 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 throwing | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 throwing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 consent | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 consent | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 consent | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 consent | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 consent | aux |
| 21 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 consent | xcomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | the Prince not said here | prince | Princess's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | consent a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Prince = prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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