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title: “‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Quee… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Queen; ‘that will be something quite new.’ Who acts: White Cat, ‘, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 77

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“‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Queen; ‘that will be something quite new.’

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**Who acts:** White Cat, ‘, that · **What happens:** beg, let, see, come, call, cry · **To what, where:** you, White Cat, ‘, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. 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, ‘, that), 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:pg503:24:77
# text = “‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Queen; ‘that will be something quite new.’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
22	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | the White Cat *= cat* |  | you |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the White Cat *= cat* *not said here* | the White Cat *= cat* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the White Cat *= cat* *not said here* | ‘ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | ‘ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | future | that |  |  |  |  | ‘ something | 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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