The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 23
Here the fox again came to him and reproached him with his disobedience, but promised to help him out of this trouble also if he would answer ‘yes’ to everything they asked him at his trial.
Who acts: fox, prince, others · What happens: come, reproach, promise, help, answer, ask · To what, where: prince, trouble, trial
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 (fox, prince, others), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reproached | cc |
| 9 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reproached | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 disobedience | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 13 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reproached | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 promised | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 promised | cc |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promised | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 trouble | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trouble | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 trouble | det |
| 23 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 answer | advmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 answer | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 answer | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 answer | aux |
| 28 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | advcl |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 yes | punct |
| 30 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 28 answer | obj |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 yes | punct |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 everything | case |
| 33 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 answer | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 asked | nsubj |
| 35 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 everything | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 asked | iobj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 trial | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 trial | nmod:poss |
| 39 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 asked | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fox | prince | here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | reproach | past | the fox not said here | prince | with prince's disobedience | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the fox not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | prince | this trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | would | prince | to everything | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | others = other | prince | prince's trial | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 7 | disobey | prince | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | try | prince | nom trial «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/23/