The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 5

Whoever is clever enough to tread on that cat’s tail is the man she is destined to marry.”

Who acts: Whoever, man · What happens: be, tread, destine, marry · To what, where: man, tail, cat

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, man), 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	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 clever	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 clever	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tread	mark
6	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 clever	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 tail	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tail	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 cat	case
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 man	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tread	ccomp
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 destined	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 destined	aux:pass
17	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 destined	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Whoever			clever, enough property	tree rules
2	tread	to-infinitive	Whoever not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	Whoever not said here	the man	that cat's tail		tree rules
4	destine	present · passive	the man not said here	cat			tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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