The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 60
The Princess kissed her gratefully, and promised to do as she wished in everything, and holding out her hand to Percinet, with a smile, she said:
Who acts: Princess · What happens: kiss, promise, do, wish, hold out, say · To what, where: everything, hand, Percinet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gratefully | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 wished | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 wished | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 holding | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 holding | cc |
| 18 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 promised | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 holding | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holding | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Percinet | case |
| 23 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 holding | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smile | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 smile | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 smile | det |
| 27 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | parataxis |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the Princess | gratefully property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Princess not said here | with a smile | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wish | past | Princess | everything | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | hold out | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess's hand | Percinet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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