The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 81

And directly the princess beheld him her heart was set on him, and she begged him to stay with her, and in return promised that he should never grow old, neither should his beauty fade.

Who acts: princess, maid · What happens: behold, set, beg, stay, promise, not grow · To what, where: maid, heart, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, maid), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 beheld	cc
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	5 beheld	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	nsubj
5	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beheld	obj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 set	aux:pass
10	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beheld	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	nsubj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beheld	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stay	mark
19	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 promised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 promised	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 return	case
25	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 promised	obl
26	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beheld	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 grow	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grow	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 grow	advmod
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promised	ccomp
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grow	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fade	punct
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 fade	cc:preconj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 fade	aux
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fade	nmod:poss
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fade	compound
38	fade	fade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the princess	maid			maid's beauty fade obl; directly property	tree rules
2	set	past · passive		princess's heart			on maid	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on he=Destination
3	beg speech: request	past	princess		maid			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here				with princess	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
5	promise speech: promise	past	the princess not said here			return		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not grow	should	maid				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fade		maid					nom fade «act 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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