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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 4

The prince thought that this was a good offer, especially as the fox was ready to go with him and show him the way to the castle, where the bird Grip sat in his cage, and so he promised to obey the fox’s instructions.

Who acts: prince, this, fox, bird Grip · What happens: think, be, go, show, sit, promise · To what, where: good offer, way, fox, cage, instructions

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, this, fox, bird Grip), 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

detnsubjmarknsubjcopdetamodccomppunctadvmodmarkdetnsubjcopconjmarkxcompcaseoblccconjiobjdetobjcasedetoblpunctadvmoddetcompoundnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctccadvmodnsubjconjmarkxcompdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctrootTheDETprinceNOUNthoughtVERBthatSCONJthisPRONwasAUXaDETgoodADJofferNOUN,PUNCTespeciallyADVasSCONJtheDETfoxNOUNwasAUXreadyADJtoPARTgoVERBwithADPhimPRONandCCONJshowVERBhimPRONtheDETwayNOUNtoADPtheDETcastleNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVtheDETbirdNOUNGripNOUNsatVERBinADPhisPRONcageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsoADVhePRONpromisedVERBtoPARTobeyVERBtheDETfoxNOUN’sPARTinstructionsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 princedet
2princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing3 thoughtnsubj
3thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_9 offermark
5thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 offernsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 offercop
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 offerdet
8goodgoodADJDegree=Pos9 offeramod
9offerofferNOUNNumber=Sing3 thoughtccomp
10,,PUNCT_16 readypunct
11especiallyespeciallyADV_16 readyadvmod
12asasSCONJ_16 readymark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 foxdet
14foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing16 readynsubj
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 readycop
16readyreadyADJDegree=Pos3 thoughtconj
17totoPART_18 gomark
18gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf16 readyxcomp
19withwithADP_20 himcase
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 goobl
21andandCCONJ_22 showcc
22showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf18 goconj
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 showiobj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 waydet
25waywayNOUNNumber=Sing22 showobj
26totoADP_28 castlecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 castledet
28castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing22 showobl
29,,PUNCT_34 satpunct
30wherewhereADVPronType=Rel34 satadvmod
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 Gripdet
32birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing33 Gripcompound
33GripgripNOUNNumber=Sing34 satnsubj
34satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 castleconj
35ininADP_37 cagecase
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 cagenmod:poss
37cagecageNOUNNumber=Sing34 satobl
38,,PUNCT_42 promisedpunct
39andandCCONJ_42 promisedcc
40sosoADV_42 promisedadvmod
41hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs42 promisednsubj
42promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thoughtconj
43totoPART_44 obeymark
44obeyobeyVERBVerbForm=Inf42 promisedxcomp
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 foxdet
46foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing48 instructionsnmod:poss
47’s'sPART_46 foxcase
48instructionsinstructionNOUNNumber=Plur44 obeyobj
49..PUNCT_3 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastthe princevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is apastthisa good offertree rules
3ispastthe foxespecially, ready propertytree rules
4goto-infinitivethe fox not said herewith foxvn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
5showinfinitivethe fox not said herethe wayfoxto the castlevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
6sitpastthe bird Gripfox's cagevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location
7promise speech: promisepastfoxvn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8obey not said to happento-infinitivefox not said herethe fox's instructionsvn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
9instructthe foxnom instruction «communication 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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