The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 103

And his mother had to promise him all sorts of nice things before he would go on again.

Who acts: mother, boy · What happens: have, promise, go on, sort · To what, where: sorts, boy, nice things

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 promise	mark
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 promise	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sorts	det
9	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 promise	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sorts	nmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	advcl
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	boy's mother				tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here	all sorts of nice things	boy		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sort=Theme
3	go on	would	boy			again	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort			nice things			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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