The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 25

So the last Fairy, who had not yet given her gift, tried to mend matters by promising the Princess a long and happy life after the fatal time was over.

Who acts: last Fairy, fatal time, Queen · What happens: not give, try, mend, promise, be, gift · To what, where: last Fairy, matters, long life, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (last Fairy, fatal time, 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 tried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	amod
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 given	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 given	advmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 given	advmod
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Fairy	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gift	nmod:poss
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fairy	punct
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 mend	mark
16	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mend	obj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 promising	mark
19	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 mend	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 promising	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 life	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 happy	cc
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 long	conj
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 promising	obj
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 over	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 over	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 over	cop
32	over	over	ADV	_	19 promising	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not give	past · perfect · passive		the last Fairy		yet		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gift=Theme
2	try	past	the last Fairy					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	mend not said to happen	to-infinitive	the last Fairy not said here	matters				tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	gerund	the last Fairy not said here	a long life	the Princess			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent princess=Goal life=Theme
5	is	past	the fatal time				over property	tree rules
6	gift		Queen					nom gift «possession transitive»: 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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