The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 43
But the prince prayed so hard for leave to make the search, and promised so often that he would be very cautious and careful, that at length the emperor gave him permission, and ordered the best horse in the stables to be saddled for him.
Who acts: prince, son, that · What happens: pray, make, promise, be, give, order · To what, where: search, permission, emperor, length, best horse, stables · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, son, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 prayed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 prayed | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 leave | case |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prayed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 search | det |
| 12 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 promised | cc |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayed | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 often | advmod |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 cautious | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 cautious | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cautious | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cautious | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cautious | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 cautious | advmod |
| 23 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 promised | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 careful | cc |
| 25 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cautious | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 length | case |
| 29 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 emperor | det |
| 31 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cautious | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | iobj |
| 34 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ordered | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ordered | cc |
| 37 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayed | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 horse | det |
| 39 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 horse | amod |
| 40 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ordered | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 stables | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stables | det |
| 43 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ordered | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 saddled | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 saddled | aux:pass |
| 46 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 ordered | advcl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 saddled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | the prince | for leave; hard property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the search | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | would | son | cautious, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | give | past | that | permission | emperor | length | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient permission=Theme at length=Asset | ||
| 7 | order | past | the best horse | the stables | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 8 | saddle | to-infinitive · passive | for emperor | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
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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