The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 26
So she promised to do as the slave wished, and he took up the seven heads and brought the princess to her father.
Who acts: girl, slave · What happens: promise, do, wish, take up, bring · To what, where: seven heads, princess, father
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, slave), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 promised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 slave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slave | det |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heads | det |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 heads | nummod |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | girl | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | as the slave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | participle | girl not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | slave | the seven heads | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | girl not said here | the princess | girl's father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to father=Destination |
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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