The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 5

“I love you already better than anyone in the world,” she said; “but now it is time to go back to your father, and we shall hear what he says about it.”

Who acts: Princess, world, we, prince · What happens: love, say, be, go back, hear · To what, where: you, time · 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 (Princess, world, we, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 love	nsubj
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 love	obj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 love	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 better	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anyone	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 time	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 time	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 time	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 time	cop
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hear	cc
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 hear	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	aux
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 says	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 says	nsubj
36	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	parataxis
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 says	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	present	Princess	you		well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	world	time	now		tree rules
4	go back in a quote	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			to your father result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
5	hear in a quote	shall	we				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	prince			about world	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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