The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 65
This time the water was ready and the girl did not fly away, but she and the prince promised to love each other always.
Who acts: time, girl · What happens: be, not fly away, promise, love · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (time, girl), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fly | advmod |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 promised | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 promised | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 promised | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prince | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 she | conj |
| 20 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 love | mark |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promised | xcomp |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 love | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 love | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this time | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fly away | past · do-support | the girl | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | girl | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | love not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | each | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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