The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 57
The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled much faster than the maiden he soon arrived at the palace, where he found five tailors working night and day at the wedding clothes of the princess.
Who acts: Wind, despair, five tailors · What happens: promise, do, travel, arrive, find, work · To what, where: palace, five tailors
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, despair, five tailors), 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 | 2 Wind | det |
| 2 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 travelled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 travelled | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 travelled | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 travelled | nsubj |
| 14 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 faster | advmod |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 travelled | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 maiden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 faster | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 arrived | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 arrived | advmod |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 travelled | parataxis |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 found | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 arrived | conj |
| 30 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 tailors | nummod |
| 31 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 tailors | acl |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 working | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 day | cc |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 night | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 clothes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 clothes | det |
| 38 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clothes | compound |
| 39 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 working | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 princess | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 princess | det |
| 42 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clothes | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Wind | gladly property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wind not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | despair | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | despair | the palace | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past | despair | five tailors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic | ||||
| 6 | work | gerund | five tailors not said here | night | at the wedding clothes of the princess | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clothes=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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