The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 68

So, very unwillingly, the king gave him leave; but first he had himself bound to a big fir tree, for fear that he should be made to dance.

Who acts: king, tune · What happens: give, leave, bind, make, dance · To what, where: tune

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, tune), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 unwillingly	advmod
4	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 bound	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 bound	cc
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 had	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bound	aux
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 had	obj
17	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gave	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
21	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fear	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 fear	case
25	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 made	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 made	aux:pass
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fear	acl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 dance	mark
32	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 made	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king		tune	unwillingly property	tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	the king not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bind	past · perfect				to a big fir tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to tree=Co-Patient
4	make	should · passive		tune			tree rules
5	dance	to-infinitive	tune not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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