The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 80
At first the princess said no, but the girl begged so hard that at length she gave in on condition that she should find her a prince as bridegroom.
Who acts: princess, girl · What happens: say, beg, give in, find · To what, where: length, princess · 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 begged | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 condition | case |
| 21 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 condition | acl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 bridegroom | case |
| 30 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prince | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the girl | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in | past | girl | length | on condition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | find | should | girl | princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme prince=Attribute |
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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