The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 87

Their farewells were full of tenderness; the Prince made the most ardent and sincere protestations, and promised to neglect nothing which might help to deliver his dear Fairer-than-a-Fairy from her captivity, and implored her to consent to their marriage as soon as they should both be free.

Who acts: farewells, Prince, bottles · What happens: be, make, promise, neglect, help, deliver · To what, where: ardent protestations, nothing, dear Fairy, captivity, sun

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farewells, Prince, bottles), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 farewells	nmod:poss
2	farewells	farewell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tenderness	case
6	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 protestations	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 ardent	advmod
13	ardent	ardent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 protestations	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sincere	cc
15	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ardent	conj
16	protestations	protestation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promised	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 promised	cc
19	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 neglect	mark
21	neglect	neglect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 promised	xcomp
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 neglect	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 help	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 help	aux
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nothing	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 deliver	mark
27	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 help	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Fairy	nmod:poss
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Fairy	amod
30	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Fairy	nsubj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Fairy	punct
32	than	than	ADP	_	36 Fairy	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 than	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Fairy	det
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 a	punct
36	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deliver	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 captivity	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 captivity	nmod:poss
39	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deliver	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 implored	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 implored	cc
42	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 implored	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 consent	mark
45	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 implored	xcomp
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 marriage	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 marriage	nmod:poss
48	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 consent	obl
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 soon	advmod
50	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 consent	advmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 free	mark
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 free	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 free	aux
54	both	both	ADV	_	56 free	advmod
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 free	cop
56	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 soon	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bottles's farewells			of tenderness; full property	tree rules
2	make	past	the Prince	the ardent protestations			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protestation=Product
3	promise speech: promise	past	the Prince not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	neglect not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	nothing			vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
5	help	might					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	deliver	to-infinitive		Prince's dear Fairy	sun's captivity		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme from captivity=Initial_Location
7	implore	past	the Prince not said here	sun			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	consent	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here			to bottles's marriage; soon property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme
9	is	should	bottles = bottle			both, free property	tree rules
10	marry		bottles = bottle				nom marriage «state 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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