The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 97
The princess at once gave her promise, and all went well for some days.
Who acts: princess · What happens: give, go, promise · To what, where: promise
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 gave | obl |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 days | det |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the princess | princess's promise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent promise=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the princess not said here | day | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | promise | princess | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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