The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 91

But the maiden only wept sore, and answered that that she could never be, for she had given her promise to the princess when she cut off her hair that the prince should wed her and her only.

Who acts: maiden, giant, prince · What happens: weep, answer, give, cut off, wed, promise · To what, where: giant, hair · 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 (maiden, giant, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 wept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wept	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wept	advmod
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wept	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 answered	cc
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 given	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 be	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 be	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 be	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 given	aux:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 given	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 answered	ccomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 promise	nmod:poss
22	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 princess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	nmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 cut	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cut	nsubj
28	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 promise	acl
29	off	off	ADP	_	31 hair	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hair	nmod:poss
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cut	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 wed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wed	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 wed	aux
36	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cut	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wed	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 her	cc
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cut	conj
40	only	only	ADV	_	20 given	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the maiden		sore property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden not said here			tree rules
3	give	infinitive · perfect · passive		giant		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient promise=Theme
4	cut off	past	giant	giant's hair		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality
5	wed	should	the prince	giant		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	promise		giant		to the princess	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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