The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 8
The prince took the grains of gold, and promised to follow the fox’s directions faithfully.
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, promise, follow · To what, where: grains, directions
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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grains | det |
| 5 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grains | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 directions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 fox | case |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 follow | obj |
| 17 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 12 follow | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | the grains of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the fox's directions | faithfully property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
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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