The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 92

Sadly the princess shook her head, but she answered slowly, ‘One way there is to bring you safely back, but I fear you will never agree to the conditions of the bargain.’

Who acts: princess, I, you · What happens: shake, answer, be, bring back, fear, not agree · To what, where: head, One way, you, bargain · 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, I, you), 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	Sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 shook	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 answered	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 answered	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
14	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 way	nummod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bring	mark
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 is	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 bring	obj
21	safely	safely	ADV	_	19 bring	advmod
22	back	back	ADV	_	19 bring	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fear	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 fear	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fear	nsubj
26	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 agree	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 agree	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 agree	advmod
30	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fear	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 conditions	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 conditions	det
33	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 agree	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 bargain	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bargain	det
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conditions	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the princess	princess's head			sadly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	princess				slowly property	tree rules
3	be	present		One way		there		tree rules
4	bring back	to-infinitive			you		safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
5	fear	present	I					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not agree speech: agree	future	you				to the conditions of the bargain	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	condition			the bargain				nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

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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