The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 72
The sons bowed low, and, promising to do their best, they started on their journey without further delay.
Who acts: sons · What happens: bow, promise, do, start, journey · To what, where: best, journey
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (sons), 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 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promising | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promising | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promising | punct |
| 8 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bowed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promising | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 best | nmod:poss |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 delay | case |
| 20 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 delay | amod |
| 21 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the sons | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | gerund | the sons not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sons not said here | sons's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | start | past | sons = son | sons's journey | without further delay | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | journey | sons = son | nom journey «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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