The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 14
The prince was very pleased to see it again, and received with great meekness all its reproaches, as well as promised to be more obedient in the future, if the fox would only help him out of his fix.
Who acts: prince, fox · What happens: be, see, receive, promise, help, fix · To what, where: sight, reproaches, future, prince, fix
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fox), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 received | cc |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 meekness | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meekness | amod |
| 15 | meekness | meekness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 reproaches | det:predet |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 reproaches | nmod:poss |
| 18 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 received | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 promised | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 promised | cc |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 obedient | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obedient | cop |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 obedient | advmod |
| 27 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 promised | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 future | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 future | det |
| 30 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obedient | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 help | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 help | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fox | det |
| 34 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 help | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 help | aux |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 help | advmod |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 promised | parataxis |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 help | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 fix | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 fix | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 fix | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 help | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | sight | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | receive | past | the prince not said here | sight's reproaches | with great meekness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | the future | obedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help a condition, not said to happen | would | the fox | prince | prince's fix | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | fix | prince | nom fix «state 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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