The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 59
She thus thought that she had them, and when the sun rose the bridal night was past: she had then kept her promise, and could vent her anger and revenge on both of them.
Who acts: piece, sun · What happens: think, have, rise, be, keep, vent · To what, where: pot, promise, anger, both · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, sun), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 rose | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 past | cop |
| 18 | past | past | ADV | _ | 13 rose | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kept | aux |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 kept | advmod |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 promise | nmod:poss |
| 25 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 vent | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 vent | cc |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 vent | aux |
| 29 | vent | vent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 kept | advcl |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 anger | nmod:poss |
| 31 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 vent | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 revenge | cc |
| 33 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 anger | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 both | case |
| 35 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 vent | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 both | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | piece | thus property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | piece | pot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the sun | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | past property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | past · perfect | piece | piece's promise | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||
| 6 | vent | could | piece not said here | piece's anger and revenge | both | tree rules | |||
| 7 | promise | piece | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | anger | piece | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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