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title: But the White Cat said to him: “King’s son, do not trouble yourself;… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the White Cat said to him: “King’s son, do not trouble yourself; I am your friend, and will make everything easy for you. Who acts: White Cat, son. 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 61

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But the White Cat said to him: “King’s son, do not trouble yourself; I am your friend, and will make everything easy for you.

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**Who acts:** White Cat, son · **What happens:** say, do, be, make · **To what, where:** fortune, trouble, friend, everything · **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 (White Cat, son), 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:pg503:23:61
# text = But the White Cat said to him: “King’s son, do not trouble yourself; I am your friend, and will make everything easy for you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	obj	_	_
28	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the White Cat |  | fortune |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | King's son *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  | yourself *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the White Cat *= cat* | your friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the White Cat *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |

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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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