The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 86
With a low bow the prince thanked the emperor for his warning, and promised to do his best to keep the sheep safe.
Who acts: prince, emperor · What happens: thank, promise, do, keep, warn · To what, where: emperor, best, sheep
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, emperor), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 bow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bow | det |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bow | amod |
| 4 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | nsubj |
| 7 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 warning | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 warning | nmod:poss |
| 12 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emperor | nmod |
| 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 | 7 thanked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promised | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 best | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sheep | det |
| 23 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | the emperor | with a low bow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme for warning=Attribute | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | emperor's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the sheep | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 5 | warn | emperor | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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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