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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 30

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When he was quite ready--and I can assure you that he looked very different from the wet and weary Prince who had stood outside in the rain, and pulled the deer’s foot--the hands led him to a splendid room, upon the walls of which were painted the histories of Puss in Boots and a number of other famous cats.

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**Who acts:** Love, I, hands · **What happens:** be, assure, look, stand, pull, lead · **To what, where:** you, rain, foot, Love, splendid room, histories

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love, I, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:23:30
# text = When he was quite ready--and I can assure you that he looked very different from the wet and weary Prince who had stood outside in the rain, and pulled the deer’s foot--the hands led him to a splendid room, upon the walls of which were painted the histories of Puss in Boots and a number of other famous cats.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
26	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Puss	Puss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Boots	Boot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
65	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Love |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **assure** | can | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** | past | Love |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the rain |  | from the wet Prince; outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location |
| 5 | **pull** | past |  | the deer's foot |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 6 | **lead** | past | the hands | Love |  | a splendid room |  | upon the walls | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |
| 7 | **paint** | past · passive |  | the histories of Puss |  | Boots and a number of other famous cats |  | of the walls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: history=Theme in boot=Destination |

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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.

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**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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