The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 62
The princess wept for sympathy, and promised that they should never more be parted, but should live with her to the end of their days.
Who acts: princess · What happens: weep, promise, not part, live · To what, where: Heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (princess), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sympathy | case |
| 5 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 parted | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 parted | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 parted | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 parted | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 parted | aux:pass |
| 15 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 promised | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 live | cc |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wept | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the princess | for sympathy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the princess not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not part | should · passive | Heart | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | live | should | the princess not said here | to the end of Heart's days | with Princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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