The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 63

The Prince promised faithfully to do all he had been told, whereupon the wolf changed himself into a ship full of most exquisite silks, of every shade and colour imaginable.

Who acts: Prince, wolf · What happens: promise, do, tell, change · To what, where: all, mortal, ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, wolf), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 all	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	16 changed	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolf	det
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	nsubj
16	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 changed	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 ship	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ship	det
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ship	amod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 silks	case
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 silks	amod
24	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 silks	amod
25	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shade	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 shade	case
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 shade	det
29	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 colour	cc
31	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shade	conj
32	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shade	amod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the Prince		faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		mortal		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	change	past	the wolf	mortal	into a ship result; whereupon property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into ship=Result

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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