The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 47

This was the reason why Gilguerillo demanded to see the king's foot before he would undertake to cure it; and to obtain admittance he gave out that he was a shoemaker.

Who acts: This, Gilguerillo, admittance · What happens: be, demand, see, undertake, cure, obtain · To what, where: reason, foot, shoemaker

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (This, Gilguerillo, admittance), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 demanded	advmod
6	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 demanded	nsubj
7	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 demanded	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 foot	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 undertake	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 undertake	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 undertake	aux
17	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cure	mark
19	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 undertake	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cure	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 obtain	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obtain	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 obtain	mark
24	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	parataxis
25	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obtain	ccomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 gave	compound:prt
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 shoemaker	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shoemaker	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shoemaker	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shoemaker	det
33	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the reason	tree rules
2	demand speech: request	past	Gilguerillo		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	see	to-infinitive	Gilguerillo not said here	the king's foot	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus
4	undertake	would	Gilguerillo		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cure	to-infinitive	Gilguerillo not said here	foot	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source
6	obtain	to-infinitive			tree rules
7	give out	past	admittance		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	is a	past	Gilguerillo	a shoemaker	tree rules

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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