The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 96

She called to them, and said that they could still get to shore alive if they would promise her the son that was next to come to their mother the queen.

Who acts: woman, princes, son · What happens: call, say, get, promise, come · To what, where: princes, woman · 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 (woman, princes, son), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 shore	case
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 promise	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promise	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 promise	aux
19	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promise	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 promise	vocative
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
25	next	next	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 son	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 queen	det
32	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	woman	princes = prince			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	could	princes = prince		still	to shore result; alive property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result
4	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	would	princes = prince	woman		the son vocative	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	come	past	the son			to princes's mother; next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location

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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