The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 109
So next morning he bade them farewell, though the princess begged him to stay with all her might; and when she found that she could not persuade him she gave him as a remembrance a gold ring.
Who acts: Prince, princess, death · What happens: bade, beg, stay, find, not persuade, give · To what, where: branches, Prince, gold ring
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, princess, death), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 bade | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bade | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 5 bade | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 begged | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | nsubj |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bade | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stay | mark |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begged | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 might | det:predet |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 might | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 found | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bade | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 persuade | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 persuade | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 persuade | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 persuade | advmod |
| 29 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 gave | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 persuade | obj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | iobj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 remembrance | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 remembrance | det |
| 36 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 ring | det |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ring | compound |
| 39 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Prince | branches = branch | morning | farewell property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the princess | Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | death | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not persuade | could | death | Prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | past | death | a gold ring | Prince | as a remembrance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme |
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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