The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 18

Although the Princess was very unhappy at leaving her husband, she did not like to refuse the invitation, and, promising to return in seven days at the latest, she took a tender farewell of the Prince, and said: ‘Before I go I will hand you over all the keys of the castle.

Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: be, leave, not like, refuse, promise, return · To what, where: husband, invitation, latest, tender farewell, you, keys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Princess, I), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	3 Princess	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unhappy	advmod
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	8 leaving	mark
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 unhappy	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 like	advmod
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unhappy	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 refuse	mark
17	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 invitation	det
19	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 refuse	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promising	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 promising	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promising	punct
23	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 unhappy	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 return	mark
25	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promising	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 return	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 latest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 latest	det
31	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 return	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 farewell	det
36	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 farewell	compound
37	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Prince	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Prince	det
40	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 farewell	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	conj
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 hand	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	51 hand	punct
46	Before	before	SCONJ	_	48 go	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 go	nsubj
48	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 hand	advcl
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 hand	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 hand	aux
51	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 said	ccomp
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 hand	obj
53	over	over	ADP	_	56 keys	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 keys	det:predet
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 keys	det
56	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 hand	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 castle	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 castle	det
59	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 keys	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					although the Princess; unhappy property	tree rules
2	leave	gerund		Princess's husband				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
3	not like	past · do-support	Princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	refuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the invitation				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	gerund						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	return not said to happen	to-infinitive			the latest	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	past	Princess	a tender farewell of the Prince				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	Princess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go	present	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	hand	future	I	you	all keys of the castle			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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