The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 108
Renelde confessed that the Countess had prayed her not to let her husband die.
Who acts: Renelde, husband · What happens: confess, pray, not let, die · To what, where: Countess, husband, Renelde
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, husband), 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 confessed | nsubj |
| 2 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 prayed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Countess | det |
| 5 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prayed | aux |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 confessed | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 prayed | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 let | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prayed | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 husband | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | Renelde | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pray | past · perfect · passive | the Countess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not let | to-infinitive | husband | Renelde | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient husband=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present | husband not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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