The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 43

You may imagine that they did not go the shortest way, but the Princess did not find it too long, and before they parted she had promised that if the Queen was still cruel to her, and tried again to play her any spiteful trick, she would leave her and come to Percinet for ever.

Who acts: You, shoes, Princess, Queen · What happens: imagine, not go, not find, part, promise, be · To what, where: shortest way, way, Princess, spiteful trick, Queen, Percinet

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, shoes, Princess, Queen), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 imagine	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 find	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 imagine	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 find	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tried	cc
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 parted	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 parted	nsubj
26	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tried	advcl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 promised	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 promised	aux
29	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 parted	ccomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 cruel	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 cruel	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Queen	det
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 cruel	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cruel	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 cruel	advmod
36	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 promised	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cruel	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tried	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tried	cc
41	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 find	conj
42	again	again	ADV	_	41 tried	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 play	mark
44	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tried	xcomp
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 play	obj
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 trick	det
47	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 trick	amod
48	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 play	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 leave	punct
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 leave	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 leave	aux
52	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 play	conj
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 leave	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 come	cc
55	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 leave	conj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 Percinet	case
57	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 come	obl
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 ever	case
59	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	55 come	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not go	past · do-support	shoes = shoe	the shortest way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not find	past · do-support	the Princess	way				long property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	part	past	shoes = shoe						tree rules
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Princess						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Queen		Princess		still	cruel property	tree rules
7	try	past	the Princess not said here				again		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	any spiteful trick	Queen				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary trick=Theme
9	leave	would	Queen	Princess					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
10	come	infinitive	Queen not said here			Percinet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to percinet=Initial_Location

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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