The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 11
But still the king was stiff-necked and would promise nothing.
What happens: neck, promise · To what, where: king, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 necked | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 necked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 necked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 necked | aux:pass |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 necked | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 stiff | punct |
| 8 | necked | neck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promise | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 promise | aux |
| 11 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 necked | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 promise | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 necked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neck | past · passive | the king | still | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | would | nothing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent nothing=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 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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