The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 100

She thanked him gratefully for helping her so cleverly, and they laughed and were very merry over the way they had taken in the Duchess and her waiting-maids; but Percinet advised her still to pretend to be ill for a few days, and after promising to come to her aid whenever she needed him, he disappeared as suddenly as he had come.

Who acts: Percinet, rods, tongue · What happens: thank, help, laugh, be, take, advise · To what, where: tongue, Percinet, way, aid

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet, rods, tongue), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	2 thanked	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 helping	mark
6	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thanked	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helping	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 cleverly	advmod
9	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	6 helping	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 merry	cc
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 merry	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 merry	advmod
17	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 laughed	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 merry	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 taken	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 taken	aux
23	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 way	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Duchess	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Duchess	det
26	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 taken	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 maids	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 maids	nmod:poss
29	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maids	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 waiting	punct
31	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Duchess	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 advised	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 advised	cc
34	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 advised	nsubj
35	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 still	nmod:poss
37	still	still	ADV	_	35 advised	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 pretend	mark
39	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 advised	xcomp
40	to	to	PART	_	42 ill	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 ill	cop
42	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pretend	xcomp
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 days	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 days	det
45	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 days	amod
46	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 ill	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 disappeared	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 disappeared	cc
49	after	after	SCONJ	_	50 promising	mark
50	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 disappeared	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 come	mark
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 promising	xcomp
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 aid	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 aid	nmod:poss
55	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 come	obl
56	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 needed	advmod
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 needed	nsubj
58	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 aid	acl:relcl
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 needed	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 promising	punct
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 disappeared	nsubj
62	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 advised	conj
63	as	as	ADV	_	64 suddenly	advmod
64	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	62 disappeared	advmod
65	as	as	SCONJ	_	68 come	mark
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 come	nsubj
67	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 come	aux
68	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	62 disappeared	advcl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Percinet		tongue			gratefully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	help	gerund	Percinet not said here		Percinet			cleverly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	laugh	past	rods = rod						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	rods = rod not said here			the way		merry property	tree rules
5	take	past · perfect	rods = rod	the way not said here				in the Duchess and Percinet's waiting maids	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Value in duchess=Location
6	advise speech: other	past	Percinet				still		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	Percinet not said here						tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	Percinet not said here				day	ill property	tree rules
9	promise speech: promise	gerund	tongue not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	tongue not said here			Percinet's aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
11	need	past	Percinet	tongue				whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
12	disappear	past	tongue					suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	come	past · perfect	tongue						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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