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title: “Lady Cat,” replied the Prince, “I thank you for receiving me so kin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lady Cat,” replied the Prince, “I thank you for receiving me so kindly, but surely you are no ordinary pussy-cat? Who acts: Lady Cat, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 39

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“Lady Cat,” replied the Prince, “I thank you for receiving me so kindly, but surely you are no ordinary pussy-cat?

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**Who acts:** Lady Cat, you · **What happens:** reply, thank, receive, cat · **To what, where:** Prince, you, Lady Cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lady Cat, you), 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:pg503:23:39
# text = “Lady Cat,” replied the Prince, “I thank you for receiving me so kindly, but surely you are no ordinary pussy-cat?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
25	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	pussy	pussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Lady Cat | the Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | Lady Cat *= cat* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** *in a quote* | gerund | Lady Cat *= cat* *not said here* | Lady Cat *= cat* |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **cat** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |

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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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