The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 89
The princess was almost frozen with horror, and implored him to stay with her, or something dreadful would be sure to happen.
Who acts: something · What happens: freeze, implore, stay, be, happen · To what, where: princess, life
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 (something), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | aux:pass |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 frozen | advmod |
| 5 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horror | case |
| 7 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frozen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 implored | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 implored | cc |
| 10 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frozen | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 implored | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stay | mark |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 implored | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sure | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 sure | cc |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 something | amod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sure | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | cop |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 implored | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 happen | mark |
| 24 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past · passive | the princess | with horror; almost property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with horror=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | implore | past | life | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | with princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location | |||||
| 4 | is | would | something | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | happen | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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