The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 37

The merchant would rather not have gone, as he did not like leaving his daughters at home, but he could not refuse to obey the king’s commands, and with a heavy heart he returned home to say farewell to them.

Who acts: merchant, king · What happens: not go, not like, leave, not refuse, obey, return · To what, where: daughters, home, commands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, king), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 gone	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 like	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 like	advmod
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	conj
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 like	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughters	nmod:poss
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 leaving	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaving	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 refuse	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 refuse	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 refuse	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 refuse	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 refuse	advmod
24	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 obey	mark
26	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 refuse	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 commands	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 obey	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 returned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 returned	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 heart	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 heart	det
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 heart	amod
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 returned	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 returned	nsubj
38	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	parataxis
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 returned	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 say	mark
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 returned	advcl
42	farewell	farewell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 say	ccomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 farewell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	would · perfect	the merchant					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not like	past · do-support	merchant					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	leave not said to happen	gerund	merchant not said here	merchant's daughters		home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme at home=Location
4	not refuse	could	merchant					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	obey not said to happen	to-infinitive	merchant not said here	the king's commands				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
6	return	past	merchant				with a heavy heart; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	merchant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	farewell	infinitive			commands = command			tree rules
9	command		the king					nom command «communication 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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