The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 86
But the prince's condition grew rapidly so much worse that the king, in despair, promised to send an embassy at once to Desiree's father.
Who acts: condition, king, prince · What happens: grow, promise, send, condition · To what, where: embassy
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (condition, king, prince), 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 | _ | 6 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 condition | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 6 grew | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 worse | advmod |
| 10 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 promised | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 despair | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 despair | case |
| 16 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 send | mark |
| 20 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 embassy | det |
| 22 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 send | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 send | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 26 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Desiree | case |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 once | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the prince's condition | bad, rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the king and despair | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king and despair not said here | a embassy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | condition | the prince | nom condition «state 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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