The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 84
The Princess assured him that she would only stay a very short time, as she had done before, and begged him not to be uneasy, as she would be quite as much grieved if anything detained her as he could possibly be.
Who acts: Princess, anything · What happens: assure, stay, do, beg, not be, grieve · To what, where: King, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, anything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 assured | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 short | advmod |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 stay | advcl |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 done | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 begged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 begged | cc |
| 22 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assured | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 begged | obj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 uneasy | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 uneasy | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 uneasy | cop |
| 27 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 begged | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grieved | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 grieved | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 grieved | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 grieved | aux:pass |
| 33 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 grieved | advmod |
| 36 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 begged | conj |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 detained | mark |
| 38 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 detained | nsubj |
| 39 | detained | detain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 grieved | advcl |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 detained | obj |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 be | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 be | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 be | aux |
| 44 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 45 be | advmod |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 detained | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | the Princess | King | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | would | Princess | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Princess | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the Princess not said here | King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not is | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grieve | would · passive | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | detain a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | Princess | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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