The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 182
But he took care not to be intoxicated, either by the wine or the compliments.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: take, care, not intoxicate · To what, where: wine
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | ccomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 intoxicated | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 intoxicated | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 intoxicated | aux:pass |
| 8 | intoxicated | intoxicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 care | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wine | punct |
| 10 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 13 wine | cc:preconj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wine | det |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 compliments | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 compliments | det |
| 16 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wine | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Michael | the wine or the compliments | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent wine=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | care | infinitive | Michael not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not intoxicate | to-infinitive · passive | Michael not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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