The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 26

However, the king was not to be turned from his purpose, and he promised the fakeer always to provided him with food, if he, in return, would pray for him.

Who acts: King · What happens: not turn, promise, provide, pray, purpose · To what, where: king, purpose, fakeer

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	However	however	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 turned	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 turned	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 purpose	nmod:poss
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 promised	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 promised	nsubj
16	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fakeer	det
18	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promised	obj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 provided	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 provided	mark
21	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 promised	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 provided	iobj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 food	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 provided	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pray	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 pray	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pray	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 return	case
30	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 he	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 pray	aux
33	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 provided	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pray	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not turn	past · passive		the king		King's purpose	however property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from purpose=Trajectory
2	promise speech: promise	past	King	the fakeer				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fakeer=Theme
3	provide	past	King not said here		fakeer		with food; always property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with food=Theme
4	pray a condition, not said to happen	would	King				for fakeer	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme
5	purpose		King					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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 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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