--- title: The Prince had forgotten all about meeting his brothers: he did not… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince had forgotten all about meeting his brothers: he did not even know what country he belonged to; but the White Cat knew when he ought to go back, and one day she said to him: Who acts: Prince, party, White Cat, kind. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/23/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The White Cat, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/23/) / 55 # The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 55 The Prince had forgotten all about meeting his brothers: he did not even know what country he belonged to; but the White Cat knew when he ought to go back, and one day she said to him: **Who acts:** Prince, party, White Cat, kind · **What happens:** forget, meet, not know, country, belong, know · **To what, where:** brothers, country, party · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince, party, White Cat, kind), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:23:55 # text = The Prince had forgotten all about meeting his brothers: he did not even know what country he belonged to; but the White Cat knew when he ought to go back, and one day she said to him: 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meeting meet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 nsubj _ _ 17 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Cat Cat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | the Prince | | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | party's brothers | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | party | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **country** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **belong** | past | party | country *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | past | the White Cat | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **go back** | ought | party | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | kind | | party | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/23/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/23/56/) - ↑ back to [The White Cat, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/23/)