The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 54
And from that moment the princess was left no peace, till she had promised to cook them all a dinner.
Who acts: princess · What happens: leave, promise, cook · To what, where: princess, sweetmeats
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 peace | det |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 promised | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 promised | aux |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cook | mark |
| 17 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promised | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cook | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 dinner | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dinner | det |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cook | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the princess | moment | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme peace=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | princess | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | sweetmeats = sweetmeat | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary dinner=Product |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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