The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 135

Then, having promised to ask her son about the Princess’s husband, she hid her in the cellar, so that the Sun might notice nothing on his return home, for he was always in a bad temper when he came in at night.

Who acts: mother, Sun · What happens: promise, ask, hide, notice, be, come in · To what, where: son, Princess, cellar, nothing, return

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Sun), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 promised	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 promised	aux
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	iobj
9	about	about	ADP	_	13 husband	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 husband	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Princess	case
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hid	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hid	nsubj
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hid	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cellar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cellar	det
20	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 notice	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 notice	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sun	det
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 notice	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 notice	aux
27	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	parataxis
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 notice	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 return	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 return	nmod:poss
31	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 notice	obl
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 return	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 temper	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	41 temper	case
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 temper	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 temper	cop
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 temper	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 temper	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 temper	det
40	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 temper	amod
41	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 notice	obl
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 came	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 came	nsubj
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 notice	advcl
45	in	in	ADV	_	44 came	advmod
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 night	case
47	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 came	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	gerund · perfect					then		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive			mother's son			about the Princess's husband	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Recipient about husband=Topic
3	hide	past	mother	Princess		the cellar			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in cellar=Location
4	notice	might	the Sun	nothing		Sun's return			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	is	past	Sun					for a bad temper; always property	tree rules
6	come in	past	Sun				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	return		Sun						nom return «communication intransitive»: 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 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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