The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 93
As you may imagine, they were all very grateful, and Princess Placida entreated them never, never to do another stitch of work so long as they lived, and they promptly made a great bonfire in the courtyard, and solemnly burnt all the embroidery frames and spinning wheels.
Who acts: you, adventures, Princess · What happens: imagine, be, not entreat, not do, live, make · To what, where: adventures, stitch, great bonfire, courtyard, embroidery frames, wheels
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, adventures, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 imagine | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grateful | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grateful | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grateful | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 grateful | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 grateful | advmod |
| 10 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entreated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entreated | cc |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 entreated | nsubj |
| 14 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | flat |
| 15 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grateful | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entreated | obj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 entreated | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grateful | conj |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 stitch | det |
| 23 | stitch | stitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 work | case |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stitch | nmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 do | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 lived | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 long | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 made | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | nsubj |
| 34 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 35 made | advmod |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bonfire | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bonfire | amod |
| 38 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 courtyard | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 courtyard | det |
| 41 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 burnt | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 burnt | cc |
| 44 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 45 burnt | advmod |
| 45 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 made | parataxis |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 frames | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 frames | det |
| 48 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 frames | compound |
| 49 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 burnt | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 spinning | cc |
| 51 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 burnt | conj |
| 52 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 spinning | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | adventures = adventure | all, grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not entreat | past | Princess | adventures = adventure | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | another stitch of work | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stitch=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | live | past | adventures = adventure | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make | past | adventures = adventure | a great bonfire | the courtyard | promptly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bonfire=Product | ||
| 7 | burnt | participle | all embroidery frames | solemnly property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | spin | gerund | wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=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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