The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 82
The young man was grateful for these words, and promised to obey them.
Who acts: young man · What happens: be, promise, obey · To what, where: wounds
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 (young man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grateful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grateful | cop |
| 5 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grateful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grateful | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 obey | mark |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 obey | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young man | for this words; grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the young man not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | wounds = wound | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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