The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 46
The prince thanked the fox for all his help, promised to give heed to his warning, said farewell to him, and rode on, with the princess by his side and the bird Grip on his wrist.
Who acts: prince · What happens: thank, promise, give, say, ride on, help · To what, where: fox, heed, warning, 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 | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 help | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod:poss |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 warning | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 warning | nmod:poss |
| 17 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 promised | parataxis |
| 20 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rode | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 rode | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 princess | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rode | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 princess | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Grip | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Grip | det |
| 36 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Grip | compound |
| 37 | Grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 side | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 wrist | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Grip | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | the fox | for prince's help | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme for help=Attribute | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | heed | prince's warning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to warning=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | prince | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | ride on | past | the prince not said here | with the princess by prince's side and the bird Grip on prince's wrist | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | help | prince | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | warn | prince | nom warning «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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