The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 77
But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very unwilling to do what he had promised.
Who acts: stepmother, Prince · What happens: be, look, do, promise
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Prince), 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 | _ | 5 ugly | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ugly | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ugly | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 ugly | advmod |
| 5 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ugly | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 loathsome | advmod |
| 9 | loathsome | loathsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 unwilling | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 unwilling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unwilling | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 unwilling | advmod |
| 15 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 loathsome | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unwilling | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 promised | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 promised | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 promised | aux |
| 21 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 do | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | stepmother | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | stepmother not said here | loathsome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Prince | unwilling property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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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