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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 40

He doubted whether a girl from a tree top would make a good empress; but he loved his son so much that he promised to do all he could to find her.

Who acts: emperor, girl · What happens: doubt, make, love, promise, do, find · To what, where: good empress, son, all, empress

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, 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

nsubjmarkdetnsubjcasedetcompoundnmodauxadvcldetamodobjpunctccnsubjconjnmod:possobjadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompobjnsubjnmodmarkadvclobjpunctrootHePRONdoubtedVERBwhetherSCONJaDETgirlNOUNfromADPaDETtreeNOUNtopNOUNwouldAUXmakeVERBaDETgoodADJempressNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONlovedVERBhisPRONsonNOUNsoADVmuchADVthatSCONJhePRONpromisedVERBtoPARTdoVERBallDEThePRONcouldAUXtoPARTfindVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 doubtednsubj
2doubteddoubtVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3whetherwhetherSCONJ_11 makemark
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 girldet
5girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing11 makensubj
6fromfromADP_9 topcase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 topdet
8treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing9 topcompound
9toptopNOUNNumber=Sing5 girlnmod
10wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 makeaux
11makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 doubtedadvcl
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 empressdet
13goodgoodADJDegree=Pos14 empressamod
14empressempressNOUNNumber=Sing11 makeobj
15;;PUNCT_18 lovedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_18 lovedcc
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 lovednsubj
18lovedloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 doubtedconj
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 sonnmod:poss
20sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing18 lovedobj
21sosoADV_22 muchadvmod
22muchmuchADV_18 lovedadvmod
23thatthatSCONJ_25 promisedmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 promisednsubj
25promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 lovedadvcl
26totoPART_27 domark
27dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf25 promisedxcomp
28allallDETPronType=Tot27 doobj
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 couldnsubj
30couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 allnmod
31totoPART_32 findmark
32findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf27 doadvcl
33hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 findobj
34..PUNCT_2 doubtedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1doubtpastemperorvn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2makewoulda girl from a tree topa good empressvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empress=Product
3lovepastemperoremperor's sonvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
4promise speech: promisepastemperorvn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5do not said to happento-infinitiveemperor not said hereallvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
6findto-infinitiveemperor not said hereempressvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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