--- title: You can imagine that I was delighted to have some one new to talk to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You can imagine that I was delighted to have some one new to talk to, and in spite of the height of my window our conversation was prolonged till night fell, then my prince reluctantly bade me farewell. Who acts: You, I, night, prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/91/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/) / 91 # The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 91 You can imagine that I was delighted to have some one new to talk to, and in spite of the height of my window our conversation was prolonged till night fell, then my prince reluctantly bade me farewell. **Who acts:** You, I, night, prince, our · **What happens:** imagine, be, have, talk, prolong, fall · **To what, where:** conversation, spite, me, height 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 (You, I, night, prince), 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:pg503:24:91 # text = You can imagine that I was delighted to have some one new to talk to, and in spite of the height of my window our conversation was prolonged till night fell, then my prince reluctantly bade me farewell. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 prolonged prolong VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 30 till till SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 reluctantly reluctantly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 farewell farewell ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | can | You | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** | past | I | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **prolong** | past · passive | | our conversation | | spite of the height of my window | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | past | night | | | | | farewell *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bade** | | my prince | me | | | then | reluctantly *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **spite** | | | the height of my window | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **converse** | | our | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/92/) - ↑ back to [The White Cat, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/24/)