Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 67
The Prince thanked the young lady for all her good advice, which he promised to follow faithfully in every respect, and she then said to him:
Who acts: Prince, back, trial · What happens: thank, promise, follow, say · To what, where: young lady, good advice, respect, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, back, trial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 advice | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 advice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 advice | amod |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 promised | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 advice | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promised | xcomp |
| 18 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 17 follow | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 respect | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 respect | det |
| 21 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 follow | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 said | advmod |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | the young lady | for trial's good advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lady=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | back | trial's good advice | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | back not said here | every respect | faithfully property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in respect=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | trial | back | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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