The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 56
As soon as she could speak she implored the Wind to do all he could to get the wedding put off for two or three days, for it would take her all that time to reach the palace of the king.
Who acts: Wind, it · What happens: speak, implore, do, get, put off, take · To what, where: Wind, all, wedding, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind, it), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 implored | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 speak | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 speak | aux |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 implored | nsubj |
| 8 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wind | det |
| 10 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 implored | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 implored | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 could | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wedding | det |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wedding | acl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 three | cc |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 two | conj |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 put | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 take | aux |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 implored | parataxis |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 time | det:predet |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 reach | mark |
| 37 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 take | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reach | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 king | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 palace | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | could | Wind | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | implore | past | Wind | the Wind | soon property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Wind not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Wind not said here | the wedding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | put off | participle | the wedding not said here | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | take | would | it | Wind | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 7 | reach | to-infinitive | the palace of the king | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=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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