The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 47
The Prince saw how naughty he had been, and promised to try and do better in future, but he did not keep his word.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: see, be, promise, try, do, not keep · To what, where: future, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 naughty | advmod |
| 5 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 been | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 naughty | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 future | case |
| 18 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 keep | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 keep | advmod |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 word | nmod:poss |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | naughty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the Prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | the Prince not said here | future | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | not keep | past · do-support | prince | prince's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 7 | word | prince | nom word «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 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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