The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 7
He prayed the Prince of Greece to forgive Laufer, which he did, on condition that Lineik would consent to marry him.
Who acts: prince, Lineik · What happens: pray, forgive, do, consent, marry · To what, where: Prince, Laufer, condition
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Lineik), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prayed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Greece | case |
| 6 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 forgive | mark |
| 8 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prayed | advcl |
| 9 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forgive | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 did | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Laufer | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 condition | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 condition | case |
| 16 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 consent | mark |
| 18 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 consent | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 consent | aux |
| 20 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 condition | acl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consent | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | prince | the Prince of Greece | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forgive | to-infinitive | prince not said here | Laufer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laufer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | prince | Laufer | condition | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | consent | would | Lineik | condition not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | Lineik not said here | prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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