The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 106
Renelde gave her promise, but in the evening Guilbert arrived at the cottage.
Who acts: Renelde, Guilbert · What happens: give, arrive, promise · To what, where: promise, cottage
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde, Guilbert), 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 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrived | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrived | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 10 | Guilbert | Guilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | nsubj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Renelde | Renelde's promise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Guilbert | the cottage | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | promise | Renelde | nom promise «communication 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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