The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 51
The youth promised to make all the haste he could, and set forth from the King’s palace.
Who acts: youth · What happens: promise, make, set · To what, where: haste, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 haste | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 haste | det |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 haste | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the youth | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the youth not said here | the King's palace | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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