The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 68
Rosette thanked them for all the trouble they were taking on her account, and promised to take great care of the kingdom, and only to amuse herself by looking at the peacock, and making Frisk dance while they were away.
Who acts: Rosette, meantime, kingdom · What happens: thank, take, promise, amuse, look, make · To what, where: meantime, account, great care, Rosette, Frisk dance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, meantime, kingdom), 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 | Rosette | rosette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 trouble | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trouble | det |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | advcl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | aux |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 trouble | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 account | nmod:poss |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 promised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 promised | cc |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promised | xcomp |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 care | amod |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 care | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 amuse | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 amuse | cc |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 amuse | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 amuse | mark |
| 28 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 take | conj |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 amuse | obj |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 31 looking | mark |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 amuse | advcl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 peacock | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 peacock | det |
| 34 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 looking | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 making | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 making | cc |
| 37 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 promised | advcl |
| 38 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dance | compound |
| 39 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 making | obj |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 away | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 away | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 away | cop |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 making | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Rosette | meantime | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | meantime | Rosette's account | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on account=Destination | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | Rosette not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rosette not said here | great care of the kingdom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | Rosette not said here | Rosette | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | Rosette not said here | at the peacock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at peacock=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | gerund | Rosette not said here | Frisk dance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product | ||||
| 8 | is | past | meantime | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | account | Rosette | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | care | the kingdom | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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