The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 113
He promised to do so, and they succeeded in getting away from the inn, and rode on until they came to another far away from it, where the prince got a good place for the girl before proceeding on his journey.
Who acts: life, shrieks, prince · What happens: promise, do, succeed, get away, ride on, come · To what, where: inn, good place, journey
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, shrieks, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 succeeded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 succeeded | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 succeeded | nsubj |
| 9 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 succeeded | advcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 getting | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 rode | compound:prt |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rode | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 24 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 28 it | nsubj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 it | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 got | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 got | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prince | det |
| 32 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | nsubj |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 place | amod |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 girl | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 girl | det |
| 39 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obl |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 41 proceeding | mark |
| 41 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 got | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 journey | nmod:poss |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 proceeding | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | life | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | succeed | past | shrieks = shriek | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get away | gerund | shrieks = shriek not said here | the inn | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from inn=Source | |||
| 5 | ride on | past | life not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | past | shrieks = shriek | inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | get | past | the prince | a good place | for the girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for girl=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | proceed | gerund | the prince not said here | life's journey | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | journey | life | nom journey «act 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 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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