The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 38
The prince was quite ready, and promised to keep better command of himself this time, and not kiss her.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, promise, keep, not kiss, command · To what, where: better command, princess, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 command | amod |
| 12 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 command | nmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kiss | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kiss | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 kiss | advmod |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kiss | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | better command of prince | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 4 | not kiss | infinitive | the prince not said here | princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | command | prince | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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 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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