The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 71
The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no. But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress.
Who acts: princess, girl · What happens: be, not like, say, not give up, entreat, allow · To what, where: idea, no., hope, one tress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, girl), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proud | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 proud | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proud | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 proud | advmod |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proud | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 princess | punct |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 parting | case |
| 18 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 idea | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 any | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 parting | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 any | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 said | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | parataxis |
| 27 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 26 said | obj |
| 28 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 give | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 girl | det |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 give | advmod |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | conj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 give | compound:prt |
| 35 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 entreated | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 entreated | cc |
| 38 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 entreated | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 entreated | nsubj |
| 41 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 allowed | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 allowed | aux:pass |
| 44 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 entreated | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 cut | mark |
| 46 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 allowed | xcomp |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 cut | compound:prt |
| 48 | just | just | ADV | _ | 50 tress | advmod |
| 49 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 tress | nummod |
| 50 | tress | tress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cut | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | of princess's hair; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | the princess | the idea of parting with any | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | princess | no. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not give up | could | the girl | hope | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | ||||
| 5 | entreat | past | girl | day | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | allow | to-infinitive · passive | girl not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | one tress | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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