The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 18
Lolotte took his reproaches meekly, and promised faithfully that she would not encourage the Princess in her idleness and indifference any more.
Who acts: Lolotte, Placida · What happens: take, promise, not encourage · To what, where: reproaches, Princess, idleness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lolotte, Placida), 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 | Lolotte | Lolotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 reproaches | nmod:poss |
| 4 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 8 promised | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 encourage | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 encourage | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 encourage | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 encourage | advmod |
| 14 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 encourage | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 idleness | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 idleness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 encourage | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 indifference | cc |
| 21 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 idleness | conj |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 encourage | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lolotte | Lolotte's reproaches | meekly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Lolotte not said here | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not encourage not said to happen | would | Placida | the Princess | Placida's idleness and indifference | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 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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