The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 4

The stepmother was very angry, but he would not listen, and at last she assured him that he would be sorry for his disobedience, and that in future he had better do as he was told.

Who acts: stepmother, Sigurd · What happens: be, not listen, assure, have, do, tell · To what, where: Sigurd, last, future · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Sigurd), 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 stepmother	det
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 listen	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 listen	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 listen	advmod
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assured	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 assured	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 assured	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assured	nsubj
17	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assured	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sorry	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sorry	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sorry	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sorry	cop
23	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 assured	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 disobedience	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 disobedience	nmod:poss
26	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sorry	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 future	case
31	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 assured	conj
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 had	xcomp
35	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 better	conj
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 told	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 told	aux:pass
39	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 do	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stepmother				angry property	tree rules
2	not listen	would	Sigurd					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	assure	past	stepmother		Sigurd	last		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	would	Sigurd				for Sigurd's disobedience; sorry property	tree rules
5	have	past	Sigurd			future	good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	do	present	Sigurd not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Sigurd				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	disobey		Sigurd					nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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