The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 66
The Prince promised joyfully all she asked; then having once more warned him not to betray her confidence, she handed him a draught to drink which very soon sunk his senses in a deep slumber.
Who acts: Prince, mother · What happens: promise, ask, have, warn, not betray, hand · To what, where: all, Prince, confidence, draught, senses, deep slumber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, mother), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 5 all | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 promised | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 warned | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 having | advmod |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 warned | advcl |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 having | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 warned | advmod |
| 13 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 warned | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 betray | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 betray | mark |
| 17 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 warned | ccomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 betray | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 handed | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 handed | nsubj |
| 22 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 warned | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 handed | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 draught | det |
| 25 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handed | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 drink | mark |
| 27 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 handed | advcl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 sunk | obj |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 sunk | advmod |
| 31 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 drink | ccomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 senses | nmod:poss |
| 33 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sunk | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 slumber | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 slumber | det |
| 36 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 slumber | amod |
| 37 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sunk | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Prince | all | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | then | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | past | Prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not betray | to-infinitive | mother's confidence | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hand | past | mother | a draught | Prince | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination draught=Theme | |||
| 7 | drink | to-infinitive | mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | sink | past | mother not said here | Prince's senses | a deep slumber | soon property | tree rules | ||
| 9 | confide | mother | nom confidence «cognition 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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