The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 35
He made the prince swear solemnly to take the greatest care of these presents, and then he let him go.
Who acts: Man, prince, horse, presents · What happens: make, swear, take, let, go, care · To what, where: prince, greatest care, horse
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, prince, horse, presents), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prince | acl:relcl |
| 6 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 2 made | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 care | det |
| 10 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 care | amod |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 presents | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 presents | det |
| 14 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 care | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 let | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Man | the prince | solemnly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Product | |||
| 2 | swear | present | the prince not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Man not said here | the greatest care of this presents | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | Man | horse | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | horse not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | care | this presents | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 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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